I recently lost everything on my Laptop hard drive & had to recover to factory settings - this wasn't too much of a problem, as I always back-up all my music, photo's etc to an external hard-drive,

The problem is all my iPhone Applications that were synced in iTunes were lost - obviuosly I still have them on my iphone. I downloaded & re-installed iTunes, but now it obviously will not let me transfer them back to the computer from the phone.

Is there a way I can get them back into my new iTunes? - these are all legit purchased applications from the app store BTW.

They were all purchased on the iphone App store & not on the computer - so how did they sync to the computer in the 1st place?

Do I have to 'register' the phone?

Thanks in advance