ITunes madness

I am new to the iPhone, but very computer literate. A few sync's intro the game I hit a problem. iTunes 'lost' my library. Back then I had few apps and it was no trouble to select 'previous libraries' and go on. Last nite the same thing happened again and when i chose previous it went back a month and I lost 15 apps...some of which I paid for.
Now I am trying find where in iTunes I can select a previous backup to install to the phone since it's always backing up before it syncs. Now there's another huge wrinkle. Tried to update to OS4 and during the backup stage it hangs up and stalls out....but I digress [no one seems to know how to deal with that one].
So anyway, do I have to 're-download' each app? Will I be charged again?
How can I make sure this doesn't happen again? I can't even find a way to change the name of the library and save it anywhere in iTunes. I have version 9.0x so it's not an old one.
If anyone has answers I sure would appreciate it, I am extremely frustrated with this problem!!!!

Heligunner wrote:
Also there is no way i could contact apple by e-mail which really got me annoyed
Yes there is: http://apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html.

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