Mtn Lion fresh Installed. Now how do I make iTunes recognize my iPhone?

I decided to wipe my HD clean and do a fresh install of Mountain Lion on my iMac i5 27". My question relates to iTunes and syncing with my iPhone. My iPhone is no longer recognized by my computer. I would hate to have to wipe my iPhone and start syncing again with a "new computer" (it's still the same machine but with a fresh system). I still have a back up of my old system and was wondering if there is a way around this. Is there a way to manually force iTunes to recognize my iPhone? Is there a file somewhere in my old backup of the entire system that could be transfered to Mountain Lion so it would recognize my iPhone? I hope someone out there has a solution for this. Thank you!

I did a clean install for troubleshooting and I wanted it to keep it clean, so Setup Assistant and Migration Assistant were out of the question. I wanted to transfer my iTunes library and purchases and to be able to sync my iPhone as before. Called Apple and the rep said the only paths were the Assistants or wipe the phone and resync with the new library losing all app data in the process. Sensing the rep may have been a bit obtuse, I emailed Apple and got a call back from another friendly rep who promptly emailed this to me:
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
I can attest this method works, and the key part may be this one:
If you backed your iOS device up to iTunes, back up your devices on the new computer or manually transfer the backups from your old computer. The backups belong in:
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/

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