Restore iTunes and Address Book from iPhone

Ok, so my G5 iSight had a a hard drive failure and I have had it replaced with a shiny new hard drive and been upgraded from Tiger to Snow Leopard. So far, so good. Now I would like to have all my iTunes and Address book data back. Currently the only copy I have is on my iPhone 3G.
How exactly do I restore all this information to iTunes, from my iPhone 3G, without iTunes overwriting the iPhone and deleting all the of very precious data I have on it?
Any step-by-step instructions gratefully received.

How are you installing Snow Leopard on a G5?
Disregarding this, I'm not sure you're allowed to...but seeing that this post hasn't yet been removed, I think I can comment...
For the music part, you can use iRip.
For the rest, check out this Google search. I'm getting blocked from the sites right now, but hopefully you'll have better luck with your internet.

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