ITunes will not allow me to transfer music manually to my iPhone

Hello,
Since I got my iPhone 4S in March, I have been manually adding music to my phone by connecting the phone, and dragging music to my phone. Recently, I had to reformat my PC and when I reinstalled iTunes, I try to click and drag music but it gives me the small red x while i hover over the iphone in the itunes window.
I don't really know what I should do to try and fix this issue. I have tried to authorizde/deauthorize the computer. In my account on the iTunes store, it says only 1 computer is able to play purchased content or something like that. Can this be resolved other than having to erase the phones content and startng over?
Thanks.

The following is from Apple article:
Using iPhone, iPad, or iPod with multiple computers
iPod shuffle and iPhone are intended for use with a single computer. You cannot load music from multiple computers or iTunes libraries onto iPod shuffle and iPhone like you can with other devices.
Sync is only oneway, from PC to your device. Unless you have the music on your PC, iTunes is going to wipe out what you have on your device if you are syncing to a new library.
You can only transfer Purchased music over to Itunes on your PC.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
As for you own music, you may have to use a third party software to copy back to your iTunes library. A good Free one is called Sharepod which you can download from Download.com here:
http://download.cnet.com/SharePod/3000-2141_4-10794489.html?tag=mncol;2

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