How do I Bring iTunes Up-to-Date on Fresh Install of Leopard?

I have created a new, vanilla image of Leopard on a partition of an external HD to be run on my 6 year old iBook. I did this fresh install so I could essentially start over and only use what I really need on this aging, but still functional Mac. I am still running the old Leopard installation on this same machine. Once I get this Leopard, pure version, to where I want it, I will restore it to my iBook using SuperDuper.
Everything is pretty much where I want it except that when I try to sync my iPhone through iTunes, no backup occurs. This is understandable since the iTunes on this Leopard - Pure image has a fresh copy of iTunes on it. I thought it might backup whatever was there, but that is apparently not the case. I have turned all the other syncing functions off so what is on the iPhone now won't be erased due to the fact that that content doesn't exist in this version of iTunes. The only other thing of any significance in iTunes are my podcasts, which I can easily replicate. My music is on an external drive.
My question is, how do I go about getting iTunes to back-up my iPhone? Do I have to bring over the old version of iTunes somehow? That looks awfully complicated. I have looked and I can't do it using Migration Assistant just for iTunes. Without the backup I might very well loose my apps on the iPhone as well. What are my options at this point?
I know people have done upgrades starting essentially from scratch, so there must be a relatively simple way to do this. Am I missing something? I suppose that when the next update to iOS comes out, iTunes will recognize that what is one my iPhone is not current and the new version will download and everything can go forward at that point, but I'd like to get this working so I can use this image before then. I welcome your suggestions and comments.
-Bill

The problem has been resolved. It didn't have anything to do with the 10.5.8 Combo Updater, which I did use when doing the Upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard. It may have had more to do with upgrading iPhoto from version 6 to version 9, though I tend to doubt that. In any event when I did select some albums to sync with my iPhone, the iPhone back-up step did precede the sync, so everything is working as desired. Perhaps I just needed to make another run at it.
-Bill

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