Songs on your IPod can't be updated because the playlists don't exist?

When I put my iPod in a window comes up saying, "Songs on the iPod "Alaina's iPod" cannot be updated because all of the playlists selected for updating do not exist" . All of my playlists are still there, and there are no songs on my iPod anymore... Can anyone help?
iPod Mini   Windows XP  

Use the instructions in this article to change the iPod's synchronization mode to one of the other two options, or create a new playlist and add that to the list of playlists to sync to the iPod.
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