ITunes music on my iPhone 5

Hello all you wonderful, marvelous techie people!
I have an iPhone 5 which I connected to my Vista PC, in order to access some photos that I had taken using the phones camera. I needed to send or at least upload one of these to a website, that required a copy of a receipt for a proof of purchase.
I had forgotten that iTunes was set to allow 'automatic syncing' with iOS devices being connected, so iTunes launched and tried to sync with the iPhone before I realized that it was happening and SOME music from the pc's iTunes library ended up on my iPhone. I have since changed this setting to disable auto syncing.
Despite this setting being in place I find it strange that this happened at all, especially as at some point in the process when I was trying to either stop any music getting on my iPhone or at least use the 'auto fill' settings manually, I got a warning that the library connected with my iPhone 5 had been previously synced to 'another' library on 'another' PC. This is despite the fact that there had actually NEVER been any music on my iPhone at all (or any other iTunes content - except the apps on the phone were visible in iTunes).
I managed to stop any more music getting onto the iPhone 5, but then could not figure out how to delete what HAD actually been put on the iPhone. I noticed that there is an option to 'auto fill' from specific playlists, so I thought that if I did that then at least my playlists and the songs in them would be better than music that had been chosen at random - according to the autofill settings that were in place at the time that the phone was auto filled, because I had connected it to my PC.
Anyway, although I did this the actual playlists were NOT copied onto the iPhone 5, even though the music in them was. Not only that I am unable to find any way to access this music which is now on my iPhone 5
In an ideal situation, I will NOT be having to do a 'restore' of my iPhone - which is not a restore anyway, because it is actually a 'factory re-set'.
Can anyone here tell me if it is possible to back up SPECIFIC data (NOT including the music currently on it) that is on my iPhone 5, so that if a 'restore' is the only option, then at least the 'important stuff' will not be lost.
Important stuff is contacts, notes, e-mail accounts and the msgs sent to and from those accounts, as well as any 'junk mail filtering data' in order to only get back the mail I actually want, and files created by other apps like Adobe Reader and SkyDrive. Currently installed apps, I assume, will be able to be recovered from the App Store, (which would then be updated in due course or as needed), and I would also assume that the files created by or used by the apps would then be accessible.
As always, all relevant help is very much appreciated.
Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year
Tufftybob

Have you already checked how big your photo library is? Maybe it takes to much space from your phone tosync your whole library. Open iTunes, connect your phone and then check your media-sync-settings for Music, Videos, Photos etc.

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