Why is it such a pain to create playlists?

On the mac you can use commandshiftN to create a playlist from a selection, but for some reason there's no shortcut for this on the pc, and it's a pain.
I transfered all my music to my PC b/c it's better than my aging powerbook, but I was too lazy to take the time to create endless numbers of playlists... but now my iPod is full, so I'm trying to organize everything into playlists, but it's taking forever... is there anyway to automate this? It would be really really really really nice if I could just tell iTunes "take all my albums and create a playlist for each one" rather than have to select -> file -> new playlist from selection 300+ times!!!
I think I'm getting carpel tunnel, Help!

That still gives me one giant playlist that is a pain to easily keep track of
Actually, it's much easier to keep track of.
Select the playlist then menu View -> Show browser.
This way you get to see the artist, albums and all the songs instead of a playlist name.
Select any of these and press Delete to remove from the playlist.
Drag albums from the library view to the playlist.
Sync the iPod.
(Not trying to simply drag this out but it seems what you are trying to is already very simple and will save a lot of work (creating hundreds of playlists). Many people have done very time consuming stuff only to find out they could have done the same with a few mouse clicks becaue they don't know or understand something about iTunes or the iPod.)

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