Why are my playlists empty?

Ok, bought a 5s.  All of my music is on an ipad2, pc that all my devices were synced to is dead and gone, never resynced, just used the ipad2.
Had all the files on a HD.  Transfered the files into new itunes install on new pc.  Got all the music back in itunes.  Restored the settings for my 5s from full icloud backup.  Plugged it into pc with new itunes install, with all my music newly added.  Did a full backup into itunes on the pc.  Restored the phone from that backup to associate the 5s with this itunes.  Synced my entire library of music onto my 5s (larger capacity than old phone, decided to put all the music on).  Everything seems cool.  No lost data, auto sign in apps all still working....
why are some of my playlist blank or incomplete?
all the songs are there.  the playlists aren't in the new itunes install, but they are still on the phone.  Why can't the phone see that the files in those playlists are right there?

See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device. If you have all the media then my scripts ImportDevicePlaylists and SyncStats may well let you recover some more useful information from the device without any other tools.
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