New Iphone / Old Imac

Please Help! I just bought an IP4 which is my third iPhone.
I have a vintage Imac running 10.4.11 which runs perfectly and does what we've always needed it to do. We also have a house full of PC's. I have always used our Imac to activate and sync my previous IP's.
When my new IP4 arrived the first thing I did was download the latest Itunes. Then I synced and updated my old IP3G. When I then plugged in my IP4, I get the message that the IP4 isn't supported by my mac OS (which worked fine for my other IP's).
So then I went to my newest PC and downloaded Itunes. I first plugged in my 3G but it wouldn't transfer any data to put on the new IP4.
What can I do to get my data off my 3g and onto my new IP4 and activate it without having to buy a whole new Mac?
Thanks in advance.

Welcome to the Discussion woxofswa,
You will not be able to do it with your Mac as you have found out.
Questions are:
1) What system are you going to end up syncing your new iPhone4 to in the future, if any.
2) What data are you looking to move?
Contacts and Calendar data is moved to the iPhone from the Address Book and Calendar.app on MacOS, Outlook on Windows. So your best approach would to figure out where you plan on syncing the new iPhone and move your old phone their first, or move the data using MobileMe to the new machine. (I have not done the later myself to a Windows machine)
System Requirements are:
Mac system requirements:
Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
Mac OS X v10.5.8 or later
iTunes 9.2 or later (free download from www.itunes.com/download)
iTunes Store account
Internet access
Windows system requirements:
PC with USB 2.0 port
Windows 7; Windows Vista; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
iTunes 9.2 or later (free download from www.itunes.com/download)
iTunes Store account
Internet access
Full iPhone 4 specs can be found here.

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