Sync iPhone with a fresh iTunes install

I had to erase the hard drive partition and reinstall 10.6 after kernel panics put my system out of commission. I was able to backup iTunes using the iTunes library backup from within iTunes itself. After I reinstalled 10.6 I inserted the iTunes backup DVDs and the music, videos, and playlists were restored to the computer perfectly. However, the photos on my iPhone are going to be deleted when I instruct iTunes to sync photos (at least that's what I think the warning is telling me). I failed to backup iPhoto, so I do not have a backup of all of those photos. I am sad about this. Is there any way to get the photos from my phone to my computer?
Also, I had iPhoto that was pre-installed when my macbook shipped to me. Now that I have had to reinstall the OS as clean install, I do not have iPhoto. If I am able to get iPhoto off of the 10.5 OS disks that came with the computer, will iPhoto take the pictures off of my iPhone? Is it possible to install iPhoto from the 10.5 disks? It is not on the 10.6 disks.
I know that is a lot of questions and if I had backed up the photos, I would no have had this problem. While I realize that no claim is made as to the iPhone being a backup devise, it does store photos (a lot of them) and I thought (assumed) that if the photos were on the iPhone, they would go back on the computer.

"What do you mean the photo sync is one way?"
Photos are sync from the computer to the iphone. They are not synced from the iphone to the computer.
" It appears to me that iTunes is going to erase the photos on the iPhone. It states that it will replace all the pictures on the iPhone with pictures from the selected folder, the folder happens to be ~/Pictures, which is empty."
This is indeed what will happen. The iphone will sync itunes content and pics from one computer/library at a time. When you sync to another, it will first erase the media from your iphone, then replace with content from the new computer/library.

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