Selecting Multiple Playlists in iTunes 5

I'm moving a LOT of playlists (>1000) into folders. So far, I haven't found a way to select multiple playlists to move into a folder (using the usual "shift-click or cntl-click" techniques for selecting multiple items).
Any ideas? Or am I stuck...dragging a single playlist at a time (ugh!)
Thanks, Steve

Aha! That makes perfect sense. I assumed they used the ITL file for operations...but hoped that the XML that gets generated would have all the information that would reside in the ITL file (thus, if you modified the XML, blew away the ITL & rebuilt from the XML, your information would be updated). Looks like at least for now, the folder information doesn't make it to the XML.
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