Any way of restoring iTunes selections from iPhone back to hard drive?

First, I have been in a series of PC-like disasters ever since I installed Leopard at Christmas--to the point where I've actually given up any hope of getting my data back--and I can only blame this on synching problems between my iPhone, Mac Mini, and iDisk. Given that I am probably to blame; nevertheless, I'm frustrated, angry, and disappointed with Apple.
Having said that, I have my (very expensive) iTunes collection ON my iPhone, but Apple says that I cannot restore it to my Mac Mini, only the other way around.
Does anyone know of any way around this? It does not seem fair, reasonable, or even friendly that I can't take my thousands of UK £££ music and restore it back to my desktop!
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
-- Mark

For the series of PC-like disasters regardless where the blame lies for a particular problem or problems, is the reason for maintaining a backup - with multiple backups for the most important data such as iTunes purchased content.
That being said, iTunes includes an option to transfer content purchased from the iTunes Store from an iPod or iPhone. This is for content purchased from the iTunes Store only.

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