Songs in itunes no longer showing on ipod

I had a number of playlists in my itunes. synching w/ipod was never a problem.
then today I got message that due to limited space on my pc's HARD DRIVE, that itunes could not do a complete sync, and that they would create a new playlist (called [my name's] playlist) and put those selected songs only (from my overall library) on my ipod.
so then my ipod showed one playlist only ([my name's] playlist}.
I then freed up space on my pc's hard drive.
once again tried to sync up my ipod w/my itunes. i also deleted that additional playlist that itunes had created. all my other playlists were still there with all my songs.
so i expected my ipod would then sync as usual, esp. since i just freed up space on my hard drive.
but no, then my ipod just showed an empty On the Go playlist. I can't get all my songs in itunes to show in my ipod anymore. also, when I DO now open up itunes, I initially get a message that says "songs on the ipod cannot be updated because all of the playlists selected for updating no longer exist" but that doens't surprise me...because the one temporary list that itunes created, I have since deleted. But all my OTHER lists are still there. So why isn't it syncing THOSE to my ipod?
Should I try the 5 R's to fix this?
Tx!

Thanks. OK, I read that other post, but it's only causing me to have more questions. So I can't get that itunes-created list back... the one that I deleted. That's Ok, because all my other personal playlists are still there. Also, the problem was not that my ipod capacity was smaller than the amount of songs in itunes. The problem was that my pc hard drive was too full. I have since freed up space on my hard drive.
So what's not clear to me is what I have to do now to get my ipod to sync like it used to. I freed up space on my hard drive, so it should be able to sync again, as it used to, no?
Thanks!

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