Managing 2 computers and an iPhone

I am trying to manage my music collection on my two Mac computers and my iPhone. All are "authorized." In a perfect world I want to have all the content in all of those places. However, when I try to add any tunes from one computer to the iphone or the iphone to a computert I'm told it will automatically erase the current content. I am "manually" managing the collections. What am I doing wrong?

Iphone will sync/manage/access/etc itunes content (music/video/etc) from ONE computer at a time.
You cannot have music from two different computers on your ipod at the same time.
You need to put all the music that you want on the iphone on ONE computer, then sync/manually manage to that computer.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972
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