Moving from one iPhone to another

Hi
Can you please kindly clear this up for me. I'm reading and clicking around and just getting more confused.
Recently I moved from an iPhone 3G -> 3GS. I did a back up and used this to restore on to the new phone. Brilliant. Everything was there except my apps and music.
I put this down to not syncing them on that laptop I used.
Now I'm expecting an iPhone 4 soon and want to make sure this doesn't happen again. I have gone in to iTunes (10.1 on a Mac Book Air running 10.6.5) but if I click sync on the apps it warns me it will wipe my phone and install what shows in the library - one app I don't even have on the phone. Eek!
What should I do to ensure my apps get put on to my new phone?
Thank you
Shell

Brilliant. The 'Sync Purchases' step was what I was missing, thank you
The apps/music were on a different computer I changed from about the same time so I never got around to doing the whole sync thing on there. I did restore from this old computer but it was until I was away from it I realised what had happened with the apps and music! I understood this is what I should have done though to get them back as I know they were all synced on there.
It all makes sense now so it won't happen again, cheers!
To be clear for those finding this thread looking for help, if you are planning to move from one iPhone to another:
1- Before: Do a back up (right click the phone on the left in iTunes and choose backup)
2- Sync apps etc (right click on the phone on the left in iTunes and choose sync purchases)
3- On the new phone when iTunes asks, use the backup
4- After, sync it to get your apps back!
Shell

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