How do you transfer an iPhone 4s to a new iTunes account?

I have bought a new iPhone 5 and have given my iPhone 4s to my step son.  He has been unable to get his iTunes account to recognize the 4. We have spent 4 hours on the phone with apple support uninstalling and installing iTunes and Apple Mobile Device Support to no avail.  It occurs to me that we may have missed a step when we cleared the 4s of all data and settings.

Your data is trandferred from the computer to the phone, not the other way round. You need to copy all the appropriate files and your iTunes library from your old computer to your new computer, then sync. (If you no longer have the old computer, you will of course have backups available)

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