How do I get the music on my iPhone back into iTunes?

Last night after much effort I was able to get my music and audiobooks synced with my iPhone 3G. This morning iTunes on the Laptop has crashed and been re-installed several times. Now the playlists and audiobooks are missing/incomplete. Is there a way to get the data on the phone back into iTunes? Right now I'm afraid to sync because I believe the iTunes will ruin what is on the phone.

I guess I thought syncing with iTunes was a "back-up". The data is on the iPhone, is there a way to write that data back into iTunes, rather than letting iTunes overwrite whats on the phone. I've located some of the previous/damaged iTunes library files, but not sure how to restore them.

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<My iPod was burning hot to the touch after all this disk activity!>
4th generation click wheel 40GB, 3.1 Windows XP Pro Latest updates on iPod, iTunes, XP Pro
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