2 Iphones (3GS') and only one ITunes Account

Greetings all,
While new to the forum my wife and I are not new to the Mac family. Recently we decided to bite the bullet and drop VZW in exchange for the Iphone 3GS. My question is, we currently have one email address and we each use that one to log in to our ITunes on our own laptop, will this cause an issue when we plug in the phones tomorrow for the initial set-up / activation? My other issue is, with all the info (songs, movies, pics, etc) on our separate ITunes accounts, if we go and change the email address / log-in info, are we going to lose all that info?
Thanks in advance for any insight anyone can provide.
Chris

You may not have a problem at all, and may not need to change anything. You can sync as many devices as you want to the same itunes account, there is no limit. You can have the same content on each device or different content, the choice is yours. What you do not want to do is start syncing different phones to different computers. Pick what computer you want to sync what phone with or sync all the phones to the same computer, but whatever you decide to do, you need to continue to sync that way. I would disable auto sync when an iphone/ipod is connected, under preferences, in itunes on each computer. That way, if you decide to sync each phone to a separate computer, you can easily transfer content between computers by connecting each phone(do not sync) then: Store>Authorize this Computer(to play it safe), then File>Transfer Purchases.

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