ITunes claiming iPad synced with another library

I have an iPad synced with an HP Windows 7 machine.  I recently bought a movie with a digital copy.  I installed the movie, connected my iPad, went to iTunes, selected the iPad, selected the Movies tab and clicked the Sync Movies button.  I got a box "Are you sure you want to sync movies? All existing songs, movies and TV shows on the iPad will be removed and replaced with movies from you iTunes library." (I don't know why my songs will be replaced with movies from my library but I'll go with it).  I clicked the Sync Movies button.  The box went away and I clicked on the movie I just downloaded and clicked Apply.  Now I get a box stating "The iPad is synced with another iTunes library.  Do you want to erase this iPad and sync with this iTunes library?  ... Erasing and syncing replaces the contents of this iPad with the contents of this iTunes library."  This iPad is only synced with this computer and has been for months. If I click Erase and Sync am I going to lose all of my data?  If iTunes erases an app off my iPad and reinstalls it again, what will happen to the data that app stores on my iPad?

Gawd sometimes I really hate Apple. I downloaded OS5, which cleaned out my entire iPad. But when I try to sync I get the same message, that the iPad is synced with another library. The new library it wants to sync to is empty, but it won't let me go to my old library. So I managed to reinstall some of my purchases from the iStore, but a whole load of music, videos and apps still can't be found. Annoying? Very much so.

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