Restoring purchances ringtones to a new iPhone

I had to replace my iPhone 4 because my daughter killed my old one.  I have the new phone and have restored it to a back up.  All of my apps and information is back and the ringtones I had purchased show up in iTunes as "on this phone" but they are greyed out and unusable.  When I got to iTunes, they don't show up in my "Purchased" catagory and when I go to the ringtone store and click on one, instead of telling me it will download free of charge because I bought it before (like an app would) it states that I have bought this ringtone before, would I like to purchase it again.  But I can't figure out how to GET the ringtone I already purchased!  Is there a way to restore the ringtones I already paid for without having to buy them again?

If you have copies of them on your computer's iTunes then you should be able to - if they show in the Tones part of your iTunes library then you should be able to sync them to your new phone. Or do you not have copies of them on your computer nor on your backup of your library ?

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