Files missing from iTunes, but still in iPhone - how to transfer them?

So, I recently had an issue where my external hard drive broke and I used my back up service, Mozy, to restore the contents of my iTunes Library to my new external hard drive. It seems that Mozy had not backed up some of the newer music files, podcasts, etc that I had in my iTunes library. These items are in my phone and show up listed in my iTunes library, but when I try to play them on my Macbook Pro, I get an error message that the file cannot be found.
Does anyone know of a way to fix this issue?

*Recover media from iPod*
See this post from Zevoneer for options on moving your iPod/iPhone data back to your computer.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7217190#7217190
iPhone Explorer should allow you to make use of the manual method mentioned towards the end of the post if none of the other third party extraction tools appeal to you.
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