Effects of Syncing Between Different Macs?

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My iPhone is currently sync'd to an iBook (500 MHz, dual USB) at my house - Mail, Safari, iCal, Address Book, the works. That iBook only has 1GB remaining on the hard drive which results in an iTunes Library consisting of only 1 album. Thus, my iPhone only has that lone album sync'd... which is pretty lame (ordering a MacBook "soon").
My Mac Pro at work has an iTunes Library of ~60GB of music that I would rather sync some of those Playlists to my iPhone. Also note: being a large corporation, that same Mac Pro can not access my Mail account (blocked). Which leads to my question...
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If I (re)sync my iPhone to my work Mac, selecting certain Playlists only and NOT selecting to (re)sync anything else (Mail, Safari, iCal, Address Book, etc.), will the phone retain my current Mail, iCal, Address Book, etc. info I'm currently using on the phone (preferred result) or will that info be wiped clean, leaving new music but no data for the other features (not preferred at all)?
Thanks,
Scott
iPhone 8GB Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Update.
I successfully synced Playlists form my work iTunes account without effecting any of my other data (contacts, iCal, etc.).
Scott

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