My computer says its libary is differnt to the one on my ipod

hey thanks for looking my problem began after i updated i think.. now when my ipod trys to snyc it wants to del all my stuff because it says its from a differnt libary? does anyone know how to snyc the comps library not the ipods causing me to loose brought apps and playlists and such

I am having the same problem. I follow directions from apple's website (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449) to move my wife's iTunes library to another location, after having found out that one of my kids got the computer they use infected with some viruses. Having followed the instructions to the "T", it is still saying that the iPhone is synched to a different library and has to be erased and resynched.
Now that in itself isn't a huge deal, except my wife has spent hours and hours creating and managing her playlists, and if they get wiped out (I suspect they're already gone), she will not be happy.
The thing I'm mostly wondering is, why is it so difficult to manage music and movies with iTunes? I love Apple devices, and I have an iPad myself, but I dread the thought of having to sort out these kinds of issues. She has over 20GB of music and movies, and having to re-add all of that to iTunes will make her seriously considering getting a Droid phone. I agree that it's way more painful than it needs to be.
On another note, we've had bad luck with a few hard drives in the past, forcing us to reload Windows from time to time. She's now at 5 out of 5 authorizations for her AppleID account, and I have no idea what happens if this drive dies and she can't authorize a new one. Is there some way to posthumously de-authorized a computer that doesn't exist anymore?
What I'd really like to see in iTunes is a configuration option like this:
Move iTunes library to a new location [C:\Users\myname\iTunes] [ Ok ]
You click the button, and after some time, your library has been moved. No muss, no fuss, and no having to buy a ridiculous third-party application (that for all I know has stolen my AppleID and password) to manage this stuff.

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