Playlists lost during syncing process

I was updating my ipod touch recently, and when I went to check that everything was updated correctly, I found that the update had deleted all of my playlists!
The playlists are all still there in my itunes library on my computer, so I haven't lost them, but I cannot figure out how to get them back on the ipod itself.
I have an 8g ipod, so I often have to delete some older songs when I download new music. So before it started updating, it gave the notice that I had music on my ipod that wasn't on my itunes, and asked if I wanted to transfer, and I said no. But other than that (which I have done before and never had problems with), there was nothing different that I did before or during syncing.
Has anybody else had this issue? I'm very big on playlists, so I would really really like to get them back, and have no idea how to go about it since I have no idea how it happened!
Thanks so much in advance for any responses!

The same thing has just happened to my ipod, I only have Genius and On-the-go!
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