Syncing playlists/all songs (mutliple ipods)

Ok, kind of confusing here. I have a 30gig video ipod and a 16gig ipod touch that i have synced to the same library. I am at the point now that the 16 gig ipod is almost full after syncing all songs and all playlist. The problem now is that i want to be able to keep adding more and more playlists to my 30 gig ipod.
Now the questions i have are:
Is there any way to sync all song and playlists EXCEPT certain playlists?
Is there any way to set up a smart playlist to include all songs so that i can sync that playlist and the other playlists i want for each ipod? If so, how?
I know i could set up a separate library for each ipod but i really wanna leave that as a last resort.
anyway, thanks in advance for any help.

The previous answer is incorrect. It is possible to sync ALL songs and only certain playlists. The trick is to make a smart playlist. Call it whatever you want. Under the settings of the smart playlist choose "playlist is"... "Music" where Music is the main music list default of iTunes with the blue music note as shown at the top of your library. This is the main list of music according to iTunes. This will send a copy of all the music files over to iPod. Then manually select playlists to sync (instead of automatic). The drawback is if you want to sync most of your playlists it may take a while to select all of the ones you want. Of course don't forget to check the smart playlist you just created.
Good luck!

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Dear All
We are having a problem where we have loaded 605 songs onto the hard drive but when we connect the IPOD to the laptop, it is only picking up 242 songs.
We have checked settings such as making sure it is meant to pick up all the songs from the hard drive and have not unticked any songs.
We are stumped what is wrong and hope that there is someone on this forum who may have had a similar problem and can offer advice.
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thank you for the link. I think we found out what the problem was after I posted my question. We had been resetting the IPOD with the USB cable connected to the laptop. We had one more go at resetting the IPOD without it being connected to the laptop and that did the required complete reset and removed all the songs. When we then tried syncing it all again, it worked perfectly.
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