Iphone deleted all text messages on restart

Hi all,
Yesterday my phone was hanging so I gave it a restart. Once it came back up it had deleted all of my messages. Is there any way to get these back without "restore"? I had an issue before where it would not back up, which was solved by removing and reinstalling iTunes. However, the backup was very old.
I have been told that the iphone puts all old messages in a database, even when they have been deleted. I backed up straight away.
Please please can someone help me restore the text messages, or at the very least, tell me how I can go about viewing them on my computer (csv for example).
Beer to who ever solves this!
Thanks.

Your MacBook shoul NOT be too old to run Leopard. (10.5) Snow Leopard, maybe, but not Leopard.
When you go to the Genius Bar, MAKE SURE the genius knows you are NOT up to date with your  OS. If they try to update your phone, you could find yourself unable to sync at all...
That said, if you're nice to them, they might just give you a copy of Leopard so you can get current with iTunes and iOS. It's been known to happen.

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