Playlists are gone!

I opened iTunes the other day and all my playlists are gone. They are still in the iPod. Can I transfer them from the iPod back into iTunes? If I connect the iPod, will it begin to sync and therefore lose the playlists that are in the iPod? Are the playlists visible if I go into the iPod as a hard drive?
This is an iPod Classic.

I believe there are one or two tools that can recover playlists - this post from Zevoneer covers pretty much all the available programs.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6273675&#6273675
It's too late to help you now, but I use the grouping field to mark which playlists I want music to appear in. e.g. "Chilled/Amy's Tunes" for a track that's supposed to be in two diferent playlists. This field is stored in the media files, so even if you have to rebuild your library it is very easy to reconstrct the required smart playlists.
tt2

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