Moving iphone 4 from imac to ibook

Okay I had a iphone 3GS and it was linked to an imac 10.4.11 with itunes 9. Now I have a iphone 4 GSM. It needs a Leopard or better. My mom bought a used ibook that is upgraded with Leopard. We upgraded iTunes to 10.
Now we tried to move the itunes via backup drive to ibook. We got the apps but not the phone contacts. What did we do wrong?

jellis502003 wrote:
Okay I had a iphone 3GS and it was linked to an imac 10.4.11 with itunes 9. Now I have a iphone 4 GSM. It needs a Leopard or better. My mom bought a used ibook that is upgraded with Leopard. We upgraded iTunes to 10.
Now we tried to move the itunes via backup drive to ibook. We got the apps but not the phone contacts. What did we do wrong?
You can try moving the iPhone backup database to the new computer. It is in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync

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