Change account on iPhone to work with my iTunes

Helping a friend here...
She's using her husband's old iPhone, since he just got a new one.  The old iPhone already has a number of applications and songs on it, which she wants to keep.
When she connects the phone to her laptop computer, iTunes recognizes the phone -- but as her husband's.  She can't add the apps & songs she's downloaded in iTunes to the phone, without erasing what's already on the phone.  (When she tries to Sync, it tells her this.)
How can she set up the phone to work with her iTunes, keeping what's already on it and continuing to add new things to it?

You cannot.
The iphone will sync with one and only one computer at a time.  When you sync to another, it will indeed erase the current content from the iphone and replace with content from the new computer.
She can transfer itunes purchases from the iphone.  Without syncing:  File>Transfer purchases
Make sure that the computer is authorized for her husbands itunes account.
iPhone User Guide (For iOS 4.2 and 4.3 Software)

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