Same computer same music files reformated playlist syncing issues

i have alot of music which i have collected for along time: most of the music files that are on my ipod now exist on my newly reformated (toshiba restore to out of box state; repaired using utility through holding f8 on boot- i did this as i had BSOD error screens constantly)i copyed what i belive to be most of my files that are on my ipod and were on my old itunes libary to an external harddrive and are now on the same physial hardrive just fresh ( there will be some files missing i belive) i have playlists set up on my ipod some have many songs in a particular order the way i like it. what i want to do is order my itunes libray the same way my ipod is set up; which is the hole syncing idea.
is it posible to put the playlists which are on my ipod onto my computer and arrange the files that match into these files AUTOMATICLY- i have that many songs it would be impractical and overwhelming to do this manualy (sorry for the discriptions and puncuation this is a hard question to ask and its not my style to paragraph etc...

alternatively is it possible to add new songs and enable some type of synce system or am i stuck and forced to manual synce for the rest of my life

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6147718&#6147718
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6183084&#6183084
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Message was edited by: brianjca
Wording and formatting edits

brotherludi wrote:
My Recently played playlist is not correct. My setting is:
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