Synced and deleted everything??

I'm sorry. I'm a PC person and I simply don't understand this and I'm about to lose it. I will resist the temptation to make jokes about the UI of itunes. Instead here are my questions...
- I sync my iPad. I add apps that I wanna send to my iPad. I already have a bunch of things on my iPad. Syncing ends, I get a notice that iPad couldn't sync because there was a disconnection error. There was no disconnection. I disconnect my iPad. ALL my apps are gone. ALL of them. Question is WHY?
- Backing up my iPad was running for 35 minutes and had gotten about 5% done. Again...why?
- Finally, what is the concept behind this whole syncing thing? I just don't understand. Ho does this work? Someone please explain the idea of syncing to me, I simply don't understand how this is supposed to be done. To me copying would be logical from A to B. I'm not trying to be facetious or difficult, I simply don't understand. Why would I want my computer to be the same as my iPad?
I'm sorry if these are PC noob questions, but I thought thi was supposed to be so much easier than any other computer. Please help.
Message was edited by: tpapics

Just my opinion but downloading and managing apps is much simpler if iTunes is used, I download the required app's, connect the iPad or iPhone select the apps tab here I can select or deselect the apps I want on the iPad by ticking the box by the app, I can also rearrange where the apps appear on the various pages by dragging them to the required page.
If your apps have gone missing look in iTunes and make sure you have the box ticked and perform a sync.
I find iTunes excellent for managing my apps, some little used apps can be put on when needed and then removed, note not deleted ! until next needed, also you can manage your apps with iPad, iPhone, iPod all from the same program, when you plug in a different device you get the opportunity to manage your apps as described above, iTunes supports quite a few different devices, I manage, my wife's phone, my son's phone, my phone, my iPod and my iPad all from the same program, iTunes is smart enough to recognise each device and allows me to manage each one differently as required.

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