Can't put anything on my iPhone from my new computer

Got a new iPhone a few weeks ago and transfered most of my music/apps/ebooks/etc with my old computer, a Windows Vista. That computer was about two and a half years old and on its last legs, so now I have a new laptop. I can connect and transfer things to my iPod touch perfectly fine with the new computer, but for some reason, I'm unable to do the same with my iPhone. I had some videos on my iPod touch that I never got around to transferring to my iPhone, but every time I load iTunes, I get the circle with the cross through it and it won't let me move anything from my iTunes onto my iPhone.
I'm logged in to my iTunes account, using the exact same library as I had on my old computer, and it won't work. Any help on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. I saw suggested via Yahoo Answers to resync the iPhone, but I don't want to have to erase all my apps and music that's already on it...
Message was edited by: piratesswoop

Did you authorize your new computer: Store>Authorize this Computer. You can't prevent all of the iTunes content, currently on your phone, from being erased the first time you sync with your new computer. By design, an iPhone will sync or manually manage iTunes content with one computer at a time. Any attempt to sync or manually manage this content with a second computer will result in all iTunes content being first erased from your phone & then replaced with the content from the second computer. If you move/copy your iTunes library from your old computer to your new computer, this shouldn't present a problem, as you'll be replacing like content with like content.

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