Most of my content has disappeared from iTunes on my iPhone

I have an iPhone 3G running version 4.01. This morning I was playing a song as a couple of podcasts were downloading and it froze.
When I re-started iTunes on the phone it had removed most of my library, apart from 5 songs that I'd recently bought via the phone and a few podcasts that I'd downloaded - none of which had been backed up to my laptop yet.
The files are still there on the phone - when I go to Settings/General/About it says that I'm still using the same amount of memory, but it's only showing that there are 5 songs.
It's been about a week since I've synced to my laptop but that isn't usually a problem. I've tried resetting my settings but nothing's changed. Is there a way that I can get these songs back?

The same thing happened to me. After downloading a couple of podcasts, I launched the iPod app on my 3GS, it froze, and when it reloaded the phone told me I had no music and no videos. All that was left were the podcasts I had just downloaded.
This is really infuriating because I am on day 1 of a 3 week vacation. And now I'm left with no music, no video and no way of restoring my phone with my desktop 1500 miles away.
A friend let me borrow her laptop, and when I connected my iPhone and launched iTunes on her computer, I saw that all my music was still there on the iPhone. I was also able to upgrade to iOS 4.1 through her iTunes. Regardless, when I launched the iPod app, still no access to my music.
What's even more infuriating is that this is not a new problem. I found an archived forum where people running iOS 3 were experiencing exactly the same problem: downloading podcast or music to their iPhones and the phones seemingly erasing all their music. Obviously there is some music library file that has gotten corrupted. Why is there no way to rebuild that file on the go?
This glitch really ruins my vacation. I know there is a fix if I restore with my desktop, but what's the point of a mobile smartphone if you can't actually take it away from your desktop without it erasing itself! Pathetic.

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