Lost Media... HELP!

I bought two audiobooks on my phone the other day. Then, when I plugged my phone into itunes to sync, the audiobooks dissappeared off my phone and theyre not on my computer either. I have checked in "available downloads" and in "check for available downloads" and I searched for them in spotlight. They are nowhere to be found. However when I go click on the book in the itunes library, it says Ive already bought them. So, I bought two audiobooks and I know I bought them and they have dissapeared. I need them for school so please help me and save me an hour trip to the genius bar. I dont know what else to do to find them.

No, if you delete something that's syncing on the device and then sync again. The delete command syncs to the PC.
A data recovery specialist may be able to restore the items but FYI for the future. Before deleting data from the handheld make sure you move it out of the Palm desktop first.
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limnos, i always have backups. the problem is that i don't know how far back in time to take a restore because i don't know how long this has been going on. and, if i take the restore back very far, i will lose what has been added since the music started to disappear.
i don't even know what you mean when you say "you will check there aren't any broken links (use a script from the Dougscripts web site) before you do a backup."
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Ok, here goes. I am an idiot. There, I admit it. Now, onto my problem.
I have a imovie6 project file I wanted to back up to an external hard drive. The problem is that I did not realise it was already formatted FAT32 instead of MAC OS Extended. So, rather than reformat (I still run some of the Evil Empire software) I decided to split the project file with Split Concat 2.5
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