ITunes is only Half-syncing

I bought an iPhone 4S last week. Just upgraded to Snow Leopard and I'm running iTunes 10.5.3 now. During the week while I waited to get the upgrade disc, I synced the iPhone with my girlfriend's laptop (a Windows computer) and created the iPhone name as well as syncing some movies and music from my account (signed in on her iTunes). I just hooked my iPhone up to my iMac for the first time with all the upgraded specs, but now it's only half upgrading.
The contacts, calendars, and applications synced up no problem, but I can't put any of my music, ringtones, movies, or books from my iTunes onto the iPhone 4S now. Do I have to restore the iPhone to factory settings and just re-register it with my iMac as the main PC it will be using? What does a restore entail anyways? If anybody can think of some things to try in order to help me get my music and other media onto the iPhone, I'd be really grateful.
By the way, when I was syncing the applications a few hours ago, the computer screen suddenly went blank and it seemed to crash. I had to do a hard shut down holding the power button to resolve the problem, and afterwards synced back up with the iMac, but couldn't put any of the said media onto it. Please help me sort this out!

So nobody has any idea about how to fix this? I was trying to restore my phone and was going to redo everything from a backup, but it wouldn't even let me do that. Guess I'll take a trip to the Apple Store this weekend when I'm finished working.

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