Apps dissapear and return as grey boxes?!

So I went into the app store (from my iphone 3gs) last night and my user id/pw box popped up right away (it has never done this without me trying to download something) so I hit cancel and it popped up again a few seconds later so I entered my password and then downloaded the Facebook update. When I hit the home key all of my first page apps (that came with the phone) were fine but when I slid to the second and third pages where all of my downloaded apps are they were all missing except for like three. I held down the sleep and home keys until my iphone restarted and where the apps had been now there are gray boxes with no writing and I can move them but not delete. I tried downloading another free app but it downloaded it and then it turned grey also. Please help!

You will most likely lose any data that you have stored from the purchased apps (unless that app has a desktop sync solution). I had a password manager from which I lost all data when restoring.
Restoring did not fix my mismatched icon problems. Here's what I followed (no restore required):
1. Start a re-download of one of the apps
2. Tap the icon while it is downloading (pauses the download)
3. Turn off iPhone
4. Turn on the iPhone
5. Return to paused app download and tap to resume download
This should fix that app's icon and the others that are incorrect (I didn't have gray icons, I had mismatched icons - but is worth a shot before restoring)

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