Recover music without losing app data, photos, etc.

I am unable to sync music from my computer to my iphone, after deleting the music on the iphone to make space for updating my gps app. Itunes now shows the songs as still on the iphone, but grayed out.
How do I get the music back onto the iphone, without losing my app, photo, and other data?
I'm also using iCloud to sync. The iphone is using the current version of iOS 5.
Thanks!

Updating to iOS 5
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4972
Backup and Set Up as New Device
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4137

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I was fighting this battle the past few days myself; but actually it is REALLY easy now. See here:
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Then, once iTunes was on the Mac, I did this:
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I am migrating from from my old Windows PC onto a MacBook Pro, and I'm having difficulties with iTunes and my iOS devices (iPhone 4, iPad 1). Maybe someone here can help me out, I'd be ever so grateful.
I set up iTunes on my MBP yesterday and logged in to my account. I replaced the empty iTunes Media folder with my old one (which contains all my music, videos and applications) via an external hard drive.
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I was fighting this battle the past few days myself; but actually it is REALLY easy now. See here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/146958/2010/03/moveitunes_windowsmac.html
Then, once iTunes was on the Mac, I did this:
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3. Launch iTunes and immediately press & hold down the Option key until a dialog opens asking you to Choose a library. Navigate to the folder/drive you've copied from the PC and open ...\iTunes\iTunes Library.
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