How do i transfer everything from my 3gs to my new 4s?

how do i tranfer everything ?? i'm not very computer literate

Almost there...
I'm replying to myself, as I have found the answer.
1.  Started iTunes, connected iPhone 4S, turned on Airplane mode.
2.  In iTunes, hovered mouse over my iPhone 4S name in left column, in popup box clicked on "Restore from Backup..."
3.  From menu clicked on name of my old iPhone 3GS backup.
4.  Backup appeared to be finished in about 8 minutes, but I new that could not be correct...iPhone had rebooted, so I entered password.  I could see that most apps were "waiting" and grayed out, also in iTunes top status box indicated that apps were being sync'd.  Also noted that my iPhone 4S now had the same name as my "old" iPhone 3GS. 
5.  After some time (a couple of hours, perhaps, not sure because I went to sleep), everything appeared sync'd on new iPhone, and iTunes stated that sync was OK.
6.  Manually renamed my new iPhone 4S to its correct name, then backed up to computer.
I decided to hold off on iCloud for now - two majore issues:  1) have heard some reports of data dissappearing, and 2) I will have to talk to Apple about MobileMe instructions for moving to iCloud, which state that move will not transfer my mobileme email, and also that I cannot install iCloud management software (nor sync to Outlook) on my Windows XP computer - I intend to upgrade to a new Win7 in January 2010, and I have heard it is not so simple to change iTunes/device syncing to another computer.  Sounds like a good project for the Christmas-NewYear holidays...

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