Playing iPhone Thru iTunes on Different Different Computers

Hi Everyone,
I'm having a problem playing the songs on my iPhone thru any but the computer it's synced to. All the songs are greyed out. None of the songs are from the iTunes store so I'm thinking I should not have to authorize any other computers to play. With my iPod I just connect it to any computer and am able to play the songs off of it thru iTunes and I'd like to be able to do the same with my iPhone. Any assistance would be appreciated...
Thanks

Unlike the iPod, when under manual control, the iPhone will only play off the library it is synced with when connected to a computer.
I tried this myself and discovered that, even though Apple gave us a little more control of our iPhone library through manual control with an update, but they still have it protected and set up so it can only work with one library.
My example is, I sync my iPhone with my Mac at home. I tried to connect it to my PC at work, and all my information showed up, songs, everything. But it was grayed out, so I couldn't use it.
Hope this helps.

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