Laptop vs iphone synch issues

Question

I havent used my itunes on (laptop) for ages, everything purchased, downloaded via phone,  however I now want to move my music library onto the phone from my laptop... but itune settings  say by synching from my laptop it will replace all the tunes on the phone with my laptop library ...gulp
I have tried the Transfer to itunes,,, but it only copied apps across ..
While there are many duplicates, do I really have to re purchase tunes  on my laptop before allowing the laptop to wipe the phone's library?
any help much appreciated

Answer 1

At our company we are having this same mystery problem since the 3.0 firmware update. The problem isn’t consistent, about half of the users have the problem and half don’t. We have 3G and 3GS phone all using 3.0 or 3.0.1 firmware with Exchange 2003 SP2 Outlook 2007 SP2. The only thing that appears to work for us right now is when creating an event or appointment is to add yourself as an attendee. When you add yourself as an attendee to your own event or meeting the event will appear on both the outlook calendar and the iphone. I can also confirm that if you accept a meeting request on the phone it does populate both the outlook calendar and the iphone. So the only problem we are left with is when items are created directly into Outlook or meetings are accepted in outlook and not on the iphone the iphone calendar is not populated with the event. This is mostly a problem for users with assistants who add events directly to calendars and who accept meeting request on behalf of others. As with most others the calendar sync has only recently became a problem since 3.0 firmware.