Macbook got stolen, if i sync iphone with new comp will i lose everything??

Hi all - desperate for help. As mentioned above, my macbook was stolen and now im trying to sync my iphone with my sony vaio, for greater fear that i'll all the data on my iphone that i've already lost on the macbook should it get stolen or damaged, it says that it'll wipe everything...which is exactly what i don't need!
I realise that music had on the laptop cannot be saved again on another machine, but here are the main concerns that i hope you might be able to help me with:
1) What happens to my apps? If I do a sync now and it wipes? Will i lose all my apps and have to purchase/download/pay for them again? What about extensions of apps, for example, I use iNavX (a marine GPS chart application), and downloaded relevant maps (rather costly) - will i still be able to save them somehow?? Esp given that i am waiting for an iPad i ordered to be delivered to me and i was hoping for a way to transfer them over to it.
2) What happens to music & movie purchases?
3) What happens to contacts? If I have a .me account is there some way for me to push my contacts over to it directly from the iphone?
4) Will i lose all my pictures?
What would your advice be in my situation...to sync and lose everything else or keep everything i have as it is and fingers crossed i never lose/damage the iphone.

Hi there, I have at some point, but I think it's all very messy. As in, I've added random folders of TV Shows and Music to that iTunes folder that i saved as backup a long time ago...what do you think? try it anyway? Thing is though, the Vaio im using is my boyfriend's so he's got his own stuff on iTunes as well...how do i merge the libraries? or can i somehow open iTunes up with an external HDD library?

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