What's the best way to move apps from an old iphone to a new one?

I just got the iPhone 4S and am having difficulties figuring out how to restore the backup from my old 3Gs. When I first plugged it in all of my contacts, calendar and email migrated just fine. (All except for my mobileme email for some reason it defaults all mobileme email adresses as .mac. Which is silly consider many of us have .me) Anyway... I've plugged in the old phone and backed it up. I've tried to restore the new phone with the old backup, but it doesn't seem to be working. How do I get all of the apps I have purchased on to the new phone?

Use an ethernet cable to connect the two computers, and set up file sharing. After that copying files from one computer to the other is exactly like copying from one hard drive to another:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106658

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