Iphone 4 won't restore backup! NEED HELP ASAP!

Ok so I got an iphone 4 last week on at&t and today decided to switch to verizon. I did so and they switched my contacts and pictures for me. great. So I got home and connected to my macbook pro and I clicked restore from backup or whatever and it was the wrong thing. So it restored from my oldd ipod touch so I lost all contacts and pics. When I click iTunes>preferences>devices I see the backup from the other phone that I need but I need to know how to get that onto my iphone I have now. Please Help!

You won't be able to.  Here's why:
Since both your phones are new, they likely had the newest iOS version installed.  For AT&T it's 4.3.3; for Verizon it's 4.2.8.
Since the Verizon phone has a LOWER firmware number than AT&T phone, you cannot restore a Verizon phone (older firmware) from an AT&T (newer firmware) backup.  You could, however, restore an AT&T phone from a Verizon backup since the AT&T phone has  the same, or more recent firmware update.
No way around this.  If you search this forum, you'll see many similar posts. 
If you used your phone as intended, you shouldn't lose much data at all, other than perhaps some application data.  Photos are stored on your computer in iPhoto (unless you didn't do as recommended and upload photos taken by the iPhone into iPhoto), contacts should be synched with Address Book so they should be on your computer.  Your iTunes media (videos, music, podcasts, apps) should still be in iTunes ready to be synched onto your new phone.

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