Playlists do not show up on iPod Nano 4th G

I've selected a few playlists to sync to my ipod (nano 4G). The songs sync and show up on the ipod alphabetically by title, artist, album, etc., but there are no itunes playlists listed. Is it not possible to play music "by playlist" the way i could with my previous ipods?

I don't know what had happened and why - but I got this to work by completely deleting the files out of itunes and reimporting from my external hard drive backup and re-creating the playlists.... not the most ideal solution, but it works.

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