Can't manually add an Mp3 to my daughter's 1st gen iPhone using my iTunes

I want to bring an MP3 file into my daughter's phone, one that can't be purchased on iTunes. I want to do this by managing her iPhone manually on my machine, which of course is set to sync with my iPhone, not hers. I'm running Windows 7. I've tried it 2 ways.
1. In iTunes, when I click the Summary tab, and under Options choose "Manually manage music and videos", I get an iTunes dialog with the message "The iPhone '[My daughter's phone]' is synced with another iTunes library. Do you want to erase this iPhone and sync with this iTunes library?" The buttons available are "Erase and Sync" and "Cancel". Obviously I want to choose Cancel because I don't want her phone syncing on my machine. (Or can iTunes handle multiple iPhones on one account? Hers is on my account.)
When I click "Cancel" I get another iTunes dialog with the message. "The iPhone '[My daughter's iPhone]' is synced with another photo library or folder. Do you want to sync with the selected folder and replace all existing photos and albums on this iPhone with those from the selected folder?". Choices are Yes and No.
This time I click No.
When I click her iPhone on iTunes under DEVICES, then click Music, the choices are all disabled. NO way to drag and drop MP3 into the music list from Windows Explorer.
2. I import the MP3 into iTunes (successfully), then try to drag it from my library onto her phone's list under DEVICES.
When I click her iPhone on iTunes under DEVICES, then click Music, the choices are again all disabled as above. No way to drag and drop from my library into her iPhones music directory.
How, then, can I import an MP3 to my daughter's iPhone using my iTunes on my machine? I have read the iPhones iTunes documentation thoroughly and this issue is not addressed.

Iphone will sync manually manage/access music from ONE computer at a time.
You cannot add content from two different machines.
You can copy the song to her computer and then sync to iphone from there.
If you sync to a different computer, then all music on the iphone will be erased and replaced with music from the new computer.

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