Syncing Playlists/contacts/games/calendars when ipod being manually managed

my ipod classic crashed and used to come up with a lot of errors, even after 'Restore', Disk Utility checks et al. So i finally set it to manually manage music etc., & manually dragged all the songs to the iPod.
Now What? After all the songs are copied, what of the smart playlists in iTunes? If i drag them too to ipod, will it be ok, or will it give some problem? On the other hand, if I remove the manual settings, and use the typical syncing procedure, will this cause all songs on ipod to be deleted again?
and how about syncing calendars/games/contacts?
I'd like to be able to do away with 'manual' & keep the normal syncing option from now on.
thanks for any help.

_As long you have all the content you want on the iPod safely in your iTunes library on the computer_, then you can dispense with manual transfer and go to auto syncing.
If there is stuff on the iPod that is not in iTunes, you cannot because under these circumstances anything not in iTunes will be deleted from the iPod.

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