Forcing me to set up as new/restore to older backup

Hey, I'm trying to sync my phone to my itunes and am having some issues with it. When I plug my phone into my computer, itunes asks me to either set it up as a new iPhone, or restore from backup. I've had my phone for several months now, and I set it up in the at&t store. I use my phone for business, so I really can't afford to set up my phone as a new device, and lose everything that I have on it right now. How can I manipulate itunes into not making me set up my phone as a new device, and see it as it already has everything on it? I've got a lot of music on my computer that isn't on my icloud (older itunes accounts and such) that I want to have on my phone. My computer is a macbook pro, if that makes any difference. and I've got a 5S.

Welcome to the discussions,
are you using the same iTunes account? If no, did you authorize iTunes with his account info again before you connected his phone?
To keep your accounts separate on one PC, create a new windows user, log in, disable autosync in iTunes, set up the second account and back up manually by right clicking on the device in the device list and choosing "backup". This will save data, pictures taken with the phone and settings to itunes. See what's included in this backup here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Transfer your purchases the same way to copy all apps and bought media from the Store to your computer. Music, unless bought in iTunes and transferred with your purchases, is not part of the backup. But you can share music between different accounts on one computer: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203
Set up at least one contact and event on your computer to be able the merge your calendars and contacts after your phone got wiped during the first sync.
The rest of the data can be restored from the backup you made.
Restoring: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

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