Reverse sync-ing of iPod to iTunes?

I made a HUGE mistake!! About 2-3 weeks ago I d/l'd the 7.0.1.8 version of iTunes (CD Driver 2.0.6.0 and CD Driver DLL 2.0.6.0).
It worked fine to watch an episode of Heroes.
Then this week I opened up iTunes and there was a series of pop-up prompts that I (mea culpa!) ignored and I just kept clicking on "Next" until it got to the last one which I think asked something about my library and if I wanted iTunes to do it or if I wanted to manually do it. I answered yes. I am completely at fault, I just kept clicking through without really reading the prompts.
My whole library was scanned for about 20 minutes or more, something about gapless backups. Then when it was all done, I realized I had duplicates and triplicates of songs in my iTunes.
I went to "Show All Duplicates" and clicked on Select All and Delete. That deleted the whole library. Fortunately I had it backed up recently to an external USB hard drive. I repopulated iTunes via the backups. It still created duplicates which I am painstakingly and manually deleting.
HOWEVER, while the restore did restore my playlists, they are not all populated. The SmartPlaylists were re-created and repopulated. My personal playlists were re-created but were not populated.
I have not synced my iPod since before all this occured. Is there a way to reverse sync iTunes from the iPod to restore my settings and populated lists that are still on my iPod?
Thanks for any advice, insight, or suggestions offered!
Jezzie

take a look at this
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
or
you can download third party software that will allow you to take the information on your ipod and trasfer it back on to your computer.. you can find these programs at www.versiontracker.com
good luck

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