Can't sync music, videos, apps with homeshare?

We have a simple PC computer. My father has the IPhone 3g, I recently got the IPhone 4 for my birthday in august. Both my mom and my sister has the IPod touch (3rd and 4th generation i think). And whenever I try to put a new song or movie or a app from the main computer, it will not sync to my phone due to homeshare. Itunes says that I have to "deauthorize" my account in order to put a new song/video/etc on my phone due to having 5 computers on homeshare. But the thing is we're confused because My father and I don't think we have 5 computers on homeshare. If I try to authorize my phone to a different computer, it erases all my apps and my songs on my phone. My father is thinking about deauthorizing one of the accounts on our computers, but he is afraid that all of our music, apps, videos, etc in our libary would be erased. Does other people have this kind of problem or a solution towards this problem?

Hi Jim,
Yes, I guess that's the only option I have. That or manage the music without Match. What I on Earth can't understand is that I'm not able to sync the videos manually, as long as Match is turned on. It seems a tad too locked up in my opinion…
Cheers,
Massimo

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