Old PC died...all my library is on my iphone

My old Compaq laptop died on me along with all of my previous music library. Some tunes were downloaded, several others were loaded from CDs one at a time over several years. Long story short. All my music is loaded on to my iPhone, what is going to happen next time I synch to iTunes? Will it wipe out my music library on my phone? Or will the synch update my new iTunes library with all the music I have on the phone? I am nervous about synching up until I know what will happen.
I can salvage the old harddrive out my laptop, but getting an adapter for it and configuring it as a slave drive is going to be tricky... the integrated video card is fried on my old laptop, so I can't see anything to make an ad hoc connection long enough to salvage my old library..
Any info on what I can expect, what I should avoid.. and any other useful info would be much appreciated.

If you sync your phone with a new library everything that is on it will be erased. You can disable auto-syncing temporarily until you have recovered your library by opening iTunes first and going to Edit>Preferences>Devices. Check the box "Disable automatic syncing for iPhones and iPods" and choose Ok.
iTunes will only let you copy your iTunes Store purchases directly from an iPod to the computer, you'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
Purchased applications can be downloaded over again, see this article for details: How to redownload purchased applications from the App Store
For everything else (music from CDs, other downloads and including iTunes purchased songs and in some cases, videos and games) there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod Touch or iPhone. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer data (such as playcounts and ratings), movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well.
A selection of iPod/iPhone to iTunes utilities:
Senuti Mac Only (iPod Touch & iPhone compatible)
SharePod Windows Only (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
TuneJack Windows Only (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPodRip Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
Music Rescue Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod Music Liberator Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iGadget Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iRepo Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
iPod Access Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
TouchCopy Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
I would also advise that you get yourself an external hard drive and back your stuff up, relying on an iPhone or iPod as your sole backup is not a good idea and external drives are comparatively inexpensive these days, you can get loads of storage for a reasonable outlay: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive

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