HT1386 How do I sync my iphone back to a restored itunes library on my pc?

I have recently had a pc crash and after restoring windows I reloaded a new version of itunes on my pc and repointed it to my library stored on the hard drive.
I have now tried to re-sync my iphone and cannot do this as my itunes is ignoring the fact that both my iphone and itunes are identical apart from a recently purchased album on itunes.
The message that I am receiving is something like your iphone does not have enough free space on it as if it isn't trying to sync the identical items but dump the whole of the itunes library to the iphone as well without realising the songs are already there?
I could try and delete all of the music on my iphone but I would loose all of my playlists which have taken hours to set up?
Any ideas most apreciated.

The iTunes library is NOT identical to the old one. It may contain the same content, but the iTunes library is a database that contains a unique identifier. Since you wiped the drive and re-installed iTunes, it is a NEW library. You will have to let it wipe and re-sync the media.

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