Help! Itunes and mac!

I have recently used Homeshare to move all my music from my pc to my mac, so I can stop using the pc to up date my iphone.
I hooked my iphone up to my mac and it began to sync, I expected it to replace all the music on my phone with the music in my itunes library. Which I wanted to happen! But all it says is "syncing..." and it backs up my phone. Now I have all the app I orginally had put all 450 of my songs are now gone.
How can I get music on my iphone.... from a my mac.
Thanks!

I figured it all out!! Thanks to my boyfriend!!

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