Total mess trying to sync iTunes playlists to my iPhone 5

Hi. So I'm trying to get just certain playlists from my Mac to my iPhone 5.  But I'd settle for just copying the whole library.  When I try the former, I get 87 out of nearly 600 songs from my main playlist, and I get all my wife's country songs that I can't stand.  When I try the latter, I get 246 of the 2200 songs in our library.
The Mac is the new problem. Our old macbook pro died and we replaced it with a desktop, concurrent with getting iphones. My old ipod synced without a hitch on the old macbook, but my experience with the iphone and the mac desktop has been beyond frustrating. It's really puzzling to me how the **** it chooses to import songs I don't even have in the playlists checked to be synced. 

your phone is in recovery mode, which means your data is already lost.  hopefuly you've been keeping regular backups

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