How do I get music onto a phone that hasn't been backed up to new computer without losing anything??

I just found out my incredibly stubborn teenager's iphone hasn't been backed up at all since last spring. Her old 3gs was previously synced with my computer, but I thought she was syncing her 4 with her own macbook - evidently not. It hasn't even been backed up to icloud in months because she has too much data and not enough space. She refuses to remove anything from the backup cue even though nothing is backing up now. She usually just buys her music from itunes with the phone, but recently she purchased a cd since she wanted all the songs on it. She asked me to put the songs on her phone. Well I've got them in itunes, no problem, but I can't get them on her phone because it says it is synced to another computer. The only computer it could have been synced to is my old computer which is no more. How can I get these songs on her iphone? If I back up her phone in itunes and then restore from the backup I'm afraid it will lose something and she will freak out. I mean the world will end if she loses a single text message from last year. Can it be done? And if it can, I need step by step, idiot-proof instructions so I don't mess anything up. My husband says if she will get it to back up to icloud, it will automatically sync the songs from her laptop? Is that right? Or does it still need to be synced to itunes on that computer?

Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities
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I know this sort of topic has been discussed a bit and I have searched quite extensively but I would REALLY appreciate any of you gurus out there to give this a quick read. I don't like to thread hijack and I never got all my concerns addressed from reading other threads so I figured I would make my own.
Ok, so I have looked around this forum, called Apple support and have searched google but have not quite found all the answers I am looking for so I decided to just register and make a post.
I have an HP desktop and now I have an HP laptop that I wish to make the new "home" to my iphone4. I did a recent backup of all my apps, music, and photos to my desktop but I have never used any program to sync notes,email,calendar etc. as I don't use Outlook or any of the options they have on the dropdown boxes. My new laptop and my desktop are both on the same version of itunes and I have authorized my new laptop and logged in to my itunes account. Also, my phone is not jailbroken so everything on it is legit. I do remember reading something that purchases only transfer if you bought them through itunes via a computer? All my Apps and music purchases were done strictly through iphone4.
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1)What happens with the Apps? Do they get removed and restored or do they just copy from the phone to itunes? I can't just restore from itunes as I have several apps that I really like that happen to be discontinued and no longer available through the app store. Also, what happens to the game saves and other data within all the appps? And if it is going to restore these apps, I can only imagine it would give me whatever the latest version of them is? I have many apps I refused to update due to developers either ruining them or downgrading what they offer. For example, Pandora. I still use the non multitasking version because it doesn't have those annoying voice commercials.
2) What am I to do about the notes, mail, contacts, texts, since I don't use the programs itunes offers to sync to? Should I sign up for MobileMe? Or would that just complicate things? I pretty much just use Hotmail.
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4) Photos I backed up into a folder on the desktop so do I just copy that onto a flash drive and transfer it or will the photos just sync to the new laptop? They are all on the camera roll I don't have any other folders or albums on the phone.
Thanks so much to anyone out there who is willing to help me out as I did search before asking and only made this post as a last resort.
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