IPhone administration with 2 different computers

I have 2 machines one laptop at home and an iMac at work. Both are my machines that I have paid for. My home computer has all my music on and I have paid for all of that myself (no illegal music). I could be wrong here but it appears that my iPhone is locked once synced with the home machine. So when I get to work if I decide I want purchase some music/video, play some music through iTunes to the Airport or do any administration to the iPhone in anyway the only way to do this is to sync it to my work machine. Thus losing all my files.
Can anyone tell me otherwise? If there isn't a way of doing this, then can anyone explain the logic as my old Touch was able to play any track from my library through the iTunes interface to my Aiport speaker set up.

If you want to connect and use an iPod on more than one computer you have to change the update preference to "manually manage songs and playlists:
Using iPod with Multiple computers
Managing Your Songs Manually
You can't sync or drag your music back directly from an iPod to iTunes, the transfer of music is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there is a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows posted in this thread: MacMuse - iPod to iTunes
If you prefer something more automated then there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod, this is just a selection. Have a look at the web pages and documentation for these, they are generally quite straightforward.
YamiPod Mac and Windows Versions
iGadget Windows Only
iPodCopy Mac and Windows Versions
iPod Access Mac and Windows Versions
PodUtil Mac and Windows Versions
iPodCopy Mac and Windows Versions
PodPlayer Windows Only

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First of all, Welcome to the  Discussions Forums!
This particular forum is specifically for Feedback About Discussions. So you may want to post your query in the iPod forum related to your model and OS.
The iPod forums can be found on the iPod Category page.
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