After updating to ios5 most of my apps are gone! Help!

I synced my iPad to my iTunes but after updating my iPad to ios5, most of my apps are not in iTunes and they are wiped off of my iPad! What did I do wrong? I can't even remember half of the apps I purchased. Most of them were for my 5-year old son. I downloaded all of them through the App Store. Is there a way to get them all back without knowing what each of them is called? I had so many!!! Someone please help me!

As long as the apps are still available in the store, and you use the same iTunes account as you originally used to buy them, then you should be able to re-download them for free : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519 .Those that are still in the store should be listed in the Purchased link on the right-hand side of the iTunes Store home page on your computer's iTunes, and there should be a 'download all' button at the bottom of it so you don't have to re-download them one-by-one.
When you've downloaded them to your computer you could then try restoring to your backup and see if that copies them and their content back to the iPad (the backup itself doesn't contain the actual apps, just their content/settings, so for the restore to work it needs access to the actual apps)

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restore from iTunes
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