I cannot sync my iPhone 4s with iTunes (MacBook Pro OS X 10.5.8)

Whenever I attempt to connect my iPhone 4s to my MacBook Pro to sync and transfer music I receive the following error message: "The iPhone cannot be used because it requires iTunes version 11.1 or later. Go to www.itunes.com to download the latest version of iTunes."
I tried downloading latest version of iTunes but when I went to install, received error message that I needed OS X 10.6 or later. Subsequently, I just purchased OS X Snow Leopard 10.6. Once I upgrade to that OS, will I be able to software upgrade to the appropriate versions of OS X and iTunes so that I can sync my iPhone 4s with my iTunes on MacBook running OS X 10.6.?

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Hi. This is possible a very trivial question and something which is very easy to do however I am new to MacBooks and so am unsure of exactly what to do.
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