Had to reinstall windows 7 - Problems syncing iPhone with new iTunes

Hello everyone!
I've recently had to reinstall windows 7. Now I am having issues syncing my iPhone 4 with my new iTunes. I've look online at several forums and webpages but haven't found a workable solution yet.
My issues are that when I attempt to sync my iPhone with the new iTunes, it tells me that it will erase everything on the phone and replace it with what's in iTunes. Well there's nothing in iTunes so this is a problem.
Now I don't purchase anything through iTunes, except for a few apps, and the only thing I really want out of syncing is to get some class recordings, done by Voice Memos, from my iPhone to my computer. The files are all around ~30 Mb so I can't email them.
Is there anyway to do this?
Thanks,
Greg

What gets erased is the iTunes/App store purchases on your phone, replaced with the contents of your iTunes library on your computer - in this case nothing. Voice memos sync only from phone to computer - they don't get deleted.
To avoid losing your apps, music/media:
1. Defeat automatic syncing on connection to iTunes: ITunes preferences > Devices > Prevent .... from syncing automatically
2. Connect phone to computer with iTunes open
3. ITunes menu > File > Devices > Transfer Purchases
4. iTunes menu > File > Devices > Back UP
Now OK to sync voice memos to iTunes.

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Sorry to hear about your macbook.
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The following Knowledge Base article offers up some great information in regards to using an older iPhone without a service plan as an iPod:
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The same way you would sync with any other version of iTunes.
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See if this user-tip for syncing to a new computer helps : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141
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I have a pc and had to reinstall Windows because of a spyware problem. Now when I plug in my ipod, itunes tells me that it is synched with another computer. If I choose to sync, it will erase my ipod. Is there a way to dump the songs on my ipod onto my pc? Or is there a way to make my computer recognize that I am using the same computer as before?
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although I have googeled and searched in this forum I couldn´t quite find the exact answer to my problem:
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