ITunes erased my contacts/calendar, how can I revert to pre-sync?

Hello all,
My Powerbook's hard drive recently took a dump on me, which was upsetting enough as I had many useful papers on there, but fortunately I did backups of my pics/music library. I sent my computer off to Apple for repair--under Applecare fortunately--and spent the last few days setting up the OS to the way I had it pre-crash.
Anyways, one bright spot (I thought) was the fact the I still had a good/current copy of my contacts and calendar on my iPod. So I plugged my iPod into my freshly configured Powerbook, enabled syncing of Addressbook/Calendar in iTunes and proceeded to update my iPod... BIG MISTAKE. Instead of asking me how I wanted to sync my computer and iPod--for example, did I want to keep contacts and cal events on my iPod and apply them to my mac? YES! Etc Etc. iTunes simply replaced my iPod's contact and calendar files with my Powerbook's blank versions, great. So now I've lost my contacts and calendar in addition to many undergrad papers. I used to think that Palm's Hotsync software was the worst in terms of options and usability, but after this I believe that Apple could learn a lot from Palm.
I've tried Norton Util 8 to do an unerase on my ipod to check for the old version of my contacts file--no go.
I've tried DiskWarrior, nothing.
I've tried (and am currently still trying) Data Rescue II, so far nothing.
Things are looking real good about now, starting to get little upset here.
Any ideas?
-Evan

Well after a Thorough Search, Data Rescue II eventually found an older version of my iSync file on my iPod, which I was able to restore and import into my Address Book. Good thing I only really needed one file (although my calendar would be nice too) because the DRII demo only allows you to recover one file that is <5MB.
I still can't believe that there are no real priority options when syncing your iPod...
-Evan

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