After Mobile iTunes purchase, all music, videos, ect disappear until sync

This happens every time I buy anything on the iPhone iTunes app, over 3G and wifi.  It's only on my iPhone 4 and never happened on my old 3GS. The phone says I have only the item(s) I just purchased, but nothing else. All the files are still there, but it's like the phone can't read them.   All it takes is syncing the phone for it to recognize the files again and my library is back, minus any playlists I have made.

iae1 wrote:
I'm having the SAME problem! I tried backing up the music on my iPod classic 80 GB and it crashed. I'm freaking out! I have over 6000 songs that I've never backed up on my PC. Help!!
Not quite sure what you've done here, but if there are still music files on the iPod then this thread should point you to some useful tools:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6273675&#6273675
Some of these tools will require a valid library, so you might be best just to head for the manual recovery method at the end of the post - I've successfully used this in the past.
tt2

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