Backup Mobile Applications on a new Mac...

So I did a 'clean' install of Mountain Lion recently. That is, I erased the entire hard drive via the disk utility and installed the fresh OS, and one by one reinstalled my nessesary software.
Now I'm wanting to rebuild iTunes, and want it to create all new backups of my iPad. I like the way my iPad is now, and just want to back it up where I left off. I hit 'Back Up' in iTunes, and it says it does... but I can't see any apps in the main list of apps. *see the picture attached...
Why are my apps not being backed up? Also the music doesn't get copied over. I'm signed in, and the computer is 'Authorised'. I've read about using iCloud for backing up apps and music, but that is only 5gigs of (free) space and I'm just wanting the apps to be backed up to my hard drive.
Please help me out,
=Z

Z3B wrote:
Why are my apps not being backed up? Also the music doesn't get copied over. I'm signed in, and the computer is 'Authorised'. I've read about using iCloud for backing up apps and music, but that is only 5gigs of (free) space and I'm just wanting the apps to be backed up to my hard drive.
Apps & music are not part of the backup.
I've read about using iCloud for backing up apps and music,
Except that apps & music asre not backed up to iClouid.
iTunes purchases (app & music) are part of iClkoud but they are not part of any backup to iCloud. They show as part of iTunes in the cloud & you can redownload them.

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