ITunes 8 lost library and all applications for the iPhone 3g

I am on WinXP Prof, using iTunes v8. This is second time I lost my entire library with ratings, applications, etc. for my iPhone 3g. The first tie it happened to iTunes v7, now with v8.
Music folder (it is on another HDD) is still there, but iTunes shows no playlists, no files. I looked at other posts on how to rebuild the library, but could not restore song ratings. I did not have a backup of the library files (only music mp3s).
Now I re-created the library from scratch (glad iTunes writes song data into mp3 and not into its library file.)
QUESTION: How do I restore all of my applications that I bought and free ones from the App Store for iPhone? I see that the "Mobile Applications" folder is there with all of the *.ipa files, but iTunes does not show those apps. How do I make iTunes pick it up?
PS. It is really amazing to me that iTunes would behave like this in v8. Apple, WOW... Up until I bought iPhone 3G in August 2008 I was using different versions of WinAmp for ~6 years and not once did I lose my library of songs...

Hi, I and most polish users have the same problem. There are plenty of apps I would buy if I could but I need to have that **** credit card. Apple could at least enable paypal payments for foreing users but it looks they don't mind losing money they could get (America is not the only country wehere people have iPhones).
So I guess most iPhone users will continue to hack their phones to be able to install greatly affordable commercial applications instead of buying it. I gess I don't understand Apple anymore.

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