Hard drive crashed on my computer, do I have to say goodbye to my music?

My hard drive crashed which means I lost all of my old songs on my compute. My iPhone 3G still has about 900 of those songs on it. Is there a way to get the songs from my phone to my computer? Maybe a way to sync differently? Or will my phone automatically delete all of my music when I try to sync it with the 5 new songs I have on my new hard drive?
Help please!!

You can't sync music back to your computer you didn't buy in itunes. You'll have to use 3rd party software like http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy or similar to do so.
All the media content will be wiped when you sync to a new computer and will be replaced with the content of the new itunes library. Backup your phone manually before, set up at least one contact and event to be able to merge calendars and contacts.
About backups: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Backing up itunes media: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1382

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