Lost my music because i thought it was backed up on itunes help

I've acquired most of my music threw CD's that i have owned over the years. I had my music on my old desk top and i synced it to my itouch. well in that time i have acquired a few more CD's a new computer and an iphone which i now use. So once i got my iphone i gave my mom my old itouch for Christmas (moving all my music from my itouch to my iphone in the process). The reason i cleared the music is because i thought i backed the music up on my new computer while transferring it to my new computer. well now I'm going on a vacation to a place with a lot of theft and i figured i would plug in my old mp3 player and sync it w/ itunes. That didn't work. i then decided to back up my songs onto my computer not using itunes. I believe i accidentally corrupted the files because my computer "stopped responding". so now itunes has all my old music but w/ a ! mark by it and i have no were to locate my old music from. What do you think is the best way to at least get my music back on my iphone. i don't even care about the mp3 player anymore
thanks
~Dylan

Welcome to the Apple community.
Unfortunately, I don't fully understand your question, but gather it is something to do with a backup in iCloud. The part that I don't understand is the iPhone 3G is not capable of running iCloud. Am I missing something here.

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