How do I sync my iPad to iTunes after setting it up independently out of the box?

I bought my iPad a couple of months ago and set it up straight out of the box as I didnt have my laptop there. It is synced to back up over Lion and all that Jazz but now I want to sync it to my iTunes so that I can put big files on it easily (movies etc). However, it wants me to completely restore it and resync and set up through iTunes, I will therefore lose everything...
What do I do?

Read this blog and see if this isn't something that you might want to try. I've never had to do this, but I've referred a few users to this - who were having the same issue as you - and it worked for them.
Take a look.
http://itsmichaelw.com/tutorials/this-computer-has-been-previously-synced-with-a n-iphone-or-another-ios-device/

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