Need help with new MAC computer and Touch

I had to wipe my drive clean and reinstall MAC OS X and iTunes yesterday.
My Touch has the latest firmware and the App Pack.
However iTunes is now blank.
How do I configure iTunes so that I can resync my Touch without losing either the firmware upgrade or the App Pack? BTW I have a backup of just the iPod touch App Pack 4A93.ipa file
Also, can my Contacts and Calendar info on the Touch be imported back into the applications on the MAC? Or will I have to rebuild them?
thanks for your help

The reason I had to wipe the drive and reinstall OSX was that when I turned on my MacBook Pro it stuck on the opening gray screen (with the gray Apple logo). The spinning start up icon just kept spinning. I tried the usual start up fixes - nothing worked. Since the computer is used for work I contacted our MAC IT guy and he suggested to start it up from the original software install disc that came with the MAC and use the Utilities on that disk to repair the hard drive. I did that, ran the utility to repair the disk. Unfortunately, the utility very quickly encountered an error and said that the disk could not be repaired. My IT guy said that the likely cause was a bad sector on the drive and that I should erase the drive using the utility using the option of overwriting with zeros since, according to him this process would end up with a reformatted drive with the bad sectors no longer available. Unfortunately that also meant that I'd lose everything on the drive. Fortunately I'm fairly up-to-date with my back ups. I've owned MACs since February 1984 and this is the first time I've encountered a problem like this.
It's taken about about 12 hours to get everything back and working again. The only concern is with my iPoT since this is a blank iTunes. I have all my music backed up so I can recreate my playlists. However, my MACs iCal and Address book are empty and I don't want the ones on my iPoT to be blanked out when I sync it. And I'd rather not lose the iPoT apps which I just bought in January. Although if that happens I guess I'll just have to purchase the apps again
best, gordo

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