Any way to synch address book to iPhone 3GS from old MacBook with 10.4.11?

My fiancee just bought a 3GS and her old macbook won't recognize it. She therefore can't synch music or contacts to it. She's planning on buying a new macbook in a month but until then, is there a work around?
Her OS won't support the later versions of iTunes needed to recognize the phone. Any thoughts?

Well, your profile info says 10.4.11, and you are posting your question in the iMac (PPC) category.  If you are running Snow Leopard, it must be a fairly recent Intel iMac.
In that case, you should definitely post your question here
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.6_snow_leopard
where other Snow Leopard users can see your question.  Restate the problem, what error messages you get, and what you have tried already (for trouble-shooting).

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