IPhone. New Computer. Help.

Hi,
I just got a used MacBook Air 1.1 and I have an iphone 4. I want to get all the songs from my iPhone onto my new computer, which already has songs on it. Everytime I try and sync the phone it says it is going to erase everything and replace it with the stuff from my new computer. This is a problem!
Just to clarify there are two things I need help with:
1) Syncing iPhone with new computer without erasing everything
2) Putting music on new computer (already has some music on it that I would like to keep) from my iPhone 4 that has all my music.
Thanks so much.

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I am stuck on a problem I have been trying to fix for a few hours with no luck after searching the community forums.
Last week we bough a new PC and set up iTunes one the new PC transfering the iTunes library successfully from the old PC to the new one.
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It's fairly easy to download most of your purchases from your iTunes account. As long as you have the right account and you installed iTunes, you should be able to download all your movies, music, apps, and so forth. In the iTunes store, there should be an option that says Recently Purchased and from there you should be able to redownload all of your stuff from there. I've had the same issue before as well. In addition, another good program to have that isn't Apple made is TouchCopy, where you can download of your songs off your iPod/iPhone into your iTunes account. If you need any further help, just lemme know!
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I know this is a lot, and I'm playing around with several hypotheticals here, but I want to make sure that go about this in whatever way maximizes how much info on the phone gets saved. Hope this is something you all can give me some direction on.
Thanks a ton.

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If you should click on "Erase and Sync" will erase all the content currently on your iPod and it will be replaced with the content of the iTunes library you just connected to.
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