DeSync My Iphone which has never been synced

I recently upgraded to an iPhone5 and restored my phone using iCloud. Having never plugged my device into a computer I went to copy some movies onto it from my computer to be told that my current device is synced with another PC (I assume the iCloud sync has remembered my old phone was synced once to copy some apps onto it 2 years ago). I dont want to have my phone synced with any PC as with my other two devices so I can copy my movies from any of the computers I have at home (Combination of Windows 7 & Mac computers) as per my other two devices.
Does anyone know of a way of desyncing my iphone from all computers so I can use it in the same way as my other two devices where I drag and drop any movie I want to have on my device through itunes and it copies it on for me? This should be simple im sure but having spent over an hour on the phone with apple where the first two support agents were very helpful but third was not at all, so im hoping someone may know a way. The biggest issue I have is if I tick the box to manually manage I get a message saying all movies will be deleted (there werent any on there so this is fine) but when I hit apply it then SYNC's with that PC which is not what I want. At the minute Im getting to the point where I think i may have to not restore from iCloud and set the phone up as a whole new phone which is annoying as I will have to spend hours setting it up again which is what the iCloud was meant to get around.
All comments welcome

You can't. She must do that on her computer, not yours. You cannot restore her data either.

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