Hard drive crash means having to reload all my software

I have I have spent hours trying to restore my macbook after a hard drive crash and replacement. I have restored the data from a backup, but I now need to restore all the software. This is the part that I dread the most - installing the software for backing up my treo 700p. I had so much trouble setting it up in the first place and now it is probably going to be even worse.
One problem is that my treo 700p shows that the last hotsync was 8/3 but the Macbook restored system was from a 7/24 backup. I was traveling so I backed up the treo but didn't have access to the external drive to backup the macbook.
Another probably bigger problem is that I have made a great deal of changes to the handheld since 7/24 which I don't want to lose. If I understand what I have read, I can't overwrite the data on the macbook with data on the device, so what should I do?
Do I need to install any of the software from the cd that came with the treo 700p first?
Do I really need to install the palm desktop, I read in the Missing Sync manual that I should install it before I install Missing Sync?
Do I need to do anything with Isync before installing or using missing sync?
On my first sync, will I get duplicates if I merge data without deleting everything on the handheld (which I don't want to do) first?
I used this forum before when I first got my 700p and followed the suggestion to upgrade to TIger (I bought a MAcbook) and use Missing SYnc, so I hope you can help me out here.

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