Why have my playlists vanished

I have a 160gb classic.
I am converting all of my music to 128kbps, so I can add videos to my ipod.
I get 2/3 of the way through my library, which is about 18k songs.
Then all of a sudden the playlists vanish off my ipod. The songs are still there. I don't mean that I can't see the playlist option on the menu. I mean, when I go into the playlist section, there are no playlists!
My itunes has all the music in the playlists. When I sync my ipod, and check the ipod to look at the playlists being sectioned, it shows the names of playlists that are being synced, but they have 0 songs in them.
What do I do?
I have restored the ipod.

I feel like a bit of an idiot, sorted this problem myself!
Somehow, and i have no idea how, i managed to uncheck/untick all 114 songs on the playlist that didnt appear to transfer to my iphone or my ipod.
Having seen this by accident i rechecked/ticked them and would you believe it, all is well again!
My faith in Apple is restored, my faith in my IT skills is a little dented.

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