Can't synch music & contacts/calendar using home and work machines

Hi all. I just purchased an Iphone. I keep me calendar and contacts on my work computer (Microsoft Outlook) and my music on my home computer (Itunes). I synched the phone with Itunes (no music) on the work computer today and now have all of my contacts and calendar on the phone. I tried to synch with my music on my home computer tonight and I got a prompt that says the phone is synched with another Itunes library and that if I want to synch with the home library (for my music) the contents of the phone will be erased and then synced.
So, my question is: will the erasing erase my contents and calendar from my synch this morning with my work computer? If so, how can I get both my contacts/calendar and my music from the 2 different computers onto my phone?
Sorry about the long post, and thanks in advance!
Regards,
Frank A.

You can sync music/video from ONE computer/library at a time. The same is not true of contacts and calendars.
Your music will be erased if you sync music to another computer, and replaced with music from the new computer.
If you are trying to sync contacts/calendar to both computers, then make sure that each computer has at least one contact and calendar entry. This will prompt a merge.
If you want to sync contacts/calendars from one and music from another computer, then disable automatic sync and select contacts and calendars to sync with one computer ( de-select music and video sync) and do the opposite on the other computer.

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