Lost apps after 4.0.1 update

I synced my phone before installing the new update. My phone had an error while performing the update and I had to restore my phone. Now that it is restored and updated, I am missing a bunch of apps. There are a few that were free when I got them and now you have to pay for them. Is there any way to get these back at all and even better without having to buy them since I had already installed them when they were free?

This happened to me as well, and it's infuriating. Somehow, I was able to go from a 3GS to an iPhone 4 without losing a single thing -- very impressive. Then a stupid, simple upgrade to 4.0.1 wipes out all my apps. I synced right before I upgraded, so I had a perfectly good backup, but for some reason, it didn't restore any apps. I had spent hours organizing them, too, and it'll take me days to go through and figure out which ones I still have on my PC were on the device.
After several attempts of resetting and restoring, it looks as though iTunes has overwritten my good backups with these empty ones. I had to resync all of the apps from my PC to my phone again, and then go through the painful process of reorganizing everything the way I had it.
Hugely frustrating.

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