Lost photos taken before first iTunes sync!

I bought my new iPhone out of town, and took several pictures before going home the next day and syncing it for the first time with my iMac/iTunes. I had iTunes copy all of my info from my iPhone 3G onto the new one. This kept the song and 3 apps I had already downloaded onto the new phone, but deleted all of the photos I had taken with it. I really need those photos back! I tried a data recovery program but the problem is I can't find any backup of the data from before the system "restored" all of my iPhone 3G info over to the iPhone 4. Any tips on finding these lost files? There are only about 20 or so but very important to me!

Photos in your camera roll are included in your iphone backup. When you restored your new phone from your previous phones backup, you effectively told the restore process to delete whatever photos were in your camera roll, on your new phone & replace them with whatever was in the backup you used to restore your phone.
When you restore your phone, a time/date stamped backup is created. If you restore your new phone from that backup, the photos in question should be restored to your phone. Once done, eject your phone, DO NOT SYNC, verify the photos are on your phone, then import them to your computer. Once done, reconnect your phone & restore again from your old backup, followed by syncing to restore your itunes content.

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