Please tell me my photos are somewhere!?

Recently got a new iPhone (4), took pix and everything for 2 months, then synced it to iTunes for the first time today. It asked something about which account I wanted to use, so I picked my prior phone's "name". When it synced, it removed all my recent pix and reloaded all my "old ones" from my prior iPhone. Sometime in the last 2 months, I did turn on iCloud (don't think I created an account tho....is that possible)? I know I saw an album called "Photo Stream" before. I have one again now, but none of my new photos are there. Anyone think there is a way to get back the last 2 mos pix? Any possibility they got "uploaded" somewhere onto my computer when I connected today?
I have never been able to find where my photos go, if anywhere, when I sync to my laptop (not a Mac) either.
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!

The first time you connect a new iPhone to iTunes that is or was used to sync with another iPhone or iOS device, you are prompted to transfer the backup for the other iPhone or iOS device or set up the iPhone as a new iPhone or don't transfer the backup. This is designed to be done right away with a new iPhone, not weeks or months later.
Photos/videos in the Camera Roll are included with the backup. When you chose to transfer the backup for the other iPhone to your new iPhone, this replaced all data on your new iPhone with the backup for the other iPhone, which includes the Camera Roll.
Photos/videos in the Camera Roll can and should be imported by your computer as with any other digital camera, which is not handled by iTunes.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083
If you didn't do this beforehand, the photos that were in the Camera Roll on your new iPhone are gone.
You can't turn on PhotoStream without an iCloud account enabled on the iPhone. If your iCloud account was not enabled along with PhotoStream turned on when these photos were captured, and you did not import the photos with your computer prior to transferring the backup for the other iPhone to your new iPhone, the photos are gone.

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