Where did my playlists Go?

I had created some playlists which I now have on my standard Ipod. I just purchased a new 3rd gen Nano and noticed that the playlists that were on my syncing laptop are there, in iTunes in name, but the contents are not. The entire set of playlists that I had created are now gone. I have noticed that Apple has released sever new updated to Itunes in the last week so I'm guessing that one of the new versions deleted the playlist contents and that’s why there are so many fixes being released in such a short time. A couple of my friends have also has the same problems.
So, it seems I cannot use the playlist on my standard Ipod to recreate the playlist on the Laptop which contains the library of songs in Itunes.
Is there any way to recreate these playlists based on what is currently on my other Ipod? If I have to do it manually it is going to take a very, very long time, and right now I'm not prepared to do that.
If the folks at Apple are reading this, you need to get your act together and first of all test your software before you release it, and, since you messed it up, give us a way to recover.
I understand that there may be SW out there that will allow one to extract information from and IPod back to a computer??? I would have thought that the sync option would do this for me, but apparently not.
Thanks to anyone who can help here.
Burger2go

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stfusauce1
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