Updating sync-ing my iPod playlists

Hi, I recently brought a iPod Video 60GB and I have read the manual and the iPod 101 on the website but I'm unclear on how transferring tunes to my iPod really works. When I got the iPod I decided to allow the iPod to update everything automatically - which is great and it copied everything I wanted. Since then I have created playlists, some are just those I created to burn discs which I didn't want on the iPod. So I changed the settings so that it would only update with certain playlists. Now after I downloaded some podcasts I right clicked and updated my iPod and it froze and crashed iTunes. When I opened it up again I lost over 3500 songs and was left with just 800 songs. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting the iPod but that didn't work. So I restarted it and had to copy all the 3500 songs again!!!!
Now what I can't understand is did I lose these songs because I decided to only update the iPod with certain playlists (and by doing so it only adds the songs from the playlists only???) or was it because something happened to crash iTunes and in turn screwed up the tunes on the iPod?
Also in order to avoid this is there a way I can get everything in the Library on the iPod but only keep the playlists I want? This seems like such a stupid question!!! I thought this was clear but I'm confused!
Any guidence or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks
iPod Video 60GB (5th gen) Windows XP Pro

If I just select the option to only sync with certain
playlists it will only put the songs in the playlists
and exclude everything else in my library?
Correct. If you import 1 or 100 songs, they go into your iTunes library. With the exception of Smart Playlists, you will have to add the song(s) to a playlist that is set to sync with your iPod, before those songs will transfer to your iPod.
Could this be the reason I lost the 3500 tracks? Not
because iTunes screwed up but I did?
It isn't necessarily any screw up, just that you weren't aware of what you had told iTunes to do with the music on your iPod. You originally had it set up to sync everything, so your entire library was on the iPod. When you changed to syncing only certain playlists, the songs that were on the iPod that were not in those specific playlists were removed from your iPod.
So in order to make sure I have all the items in my
Library I could create a smart playlist that includes
everything? This way I don't have to have the other
playlists like ones I have created for burning
discs...?
If you've already burned the discs, it would be easiest to just delete those specific playlists from iTunes and go back to automatically updating. Or possibly a smart playlist which is set to "Date Added is after 01/01/02" (some date after the oldest date you had added music).
Nikki

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