Moving iPhone from Mac to PC

Hello there,
I hope you can help me!
I want to move my iphone from my very old macbook to my pc, the slight complication is that I want to merge my mac itunes library with my pc itunes library. So far I have moved all of my stuff from my mac to my pc using Home Sharing in itunes. I have located the iphone backup on my mac and have trnsferred it to the correct folder on my pc.
My question is: Is that sufficient to now sync my iphone with my pc? I am not particularly worried about the music, videos, etc but the contacts and settings on the iphone. I can re-add the small amount of music another time. Is there anything else I need to do?
Thanks in advance for your help!
MrsHazy

It's not a problem. The iphone really does not care what computer it is connected to. Also, you can log into your itunes account from any computer that has itunes on it.
You need to move your library to your new computer.
This article will help
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
Then once your library is moved, find one of your purchased songs and try to play. It will ask you to authorize this computer. Click yes and it will ask you for your account name and password. You can have up to 5 computers authorized at one time.
If you want to de-authorize your old computer, click on store at the top of itunes can click de-authorize. It will ask you for your account name and password.

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