Music & Video Sync issue with multiple computers

I sync my phone to multiple computers, one primarily for the ical and the other primarily for the music/video. Problem is, when I sync to my macbook pro (the ical & address book) I have the music sync turned off but it still wipes out ALL my music and videos! When I resync to my imac (the music & video) it puts the media right back on the phone of course.
Why does it wipe away my data? I tell it not to sync and it still wipes out my phone. It's quite annoying since it takes a while for the phone to re-sync 6-7 gigs of audio and video, not to mention if I'm not by my imac I have no A/V on my phone till I resync. The A/V functions are the reason most people buy the thing in the first place, I'm surprised its so un-userfriendly in this case.
any suggestions?
thanks,

I managed to get this done tonight.  Unfortunately, I didn't see a solution posted anywhere, so maybe I'm the first.  I did this with an iPhone, not an iPad, but I imagine the process is the same.
Step 1) Copy the contacts to the right profile.  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286044
Step 2) Back up your device.
Step 3) Start outlook and change the default profile to the one you want to use.
Step 4) Restore the device to it's original settings using the Restore button on the summary page.
Step 4) After the restore, it asks which backup you want to recover, pick the one you just did.
Now, if for some reason, it asks for an outlook profile during the restore, pick the right one.  I was asked this go-round, but not when I originally started syncing the phone.  Go figure.
Restoring to it's original settings could cause some sort of data loss.  I don't care about any game saves, and I just sync with my gmail, so my contacts were really all I was concerned about.  This process did recover 5 gigs of space eaten up by unexplained "other" data in my phone.  Maybe it was cached e-mails, maybe it was old apps that didn't uninstall properly, who knows.  But my apps, my e-mail, my contacts, my notes, my text messages and my calendar are all in place.
I have read that the default profile can be changed after the first sync, but in my situation, I wanted my outlook to default to this profile anyways.
Hopefully this will pop up in a google search for the next person who runs into this problem.  It sure was a headache for me.

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