Solution to syncing with two computers

i have a client who wanted to sync her addresses, datebook, mail etc at her office and her music and photos at home. i was told by many many people at apple that this was impossible.
finally i got a great iphone guy on the phone who said sure, you can do that. i thought i would post what he told me in case anyone else wants to do this.
it seems pretty obvious now but....
with the phone plugged it, go through all the things to sync and only click the ones you want to sync on that computer. on the summary page, under options, only click the second option...only sync checked items.
this worked flawlessly ...hope this can save someone some reasearch time....

It works. Make sure you:
1. Select "Disable automatic syncing for all iPhones" under Edit / Preferences / iPhone in the iTunes menu.
2. Uncheck "Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected" in the Summary tab of iTunes.
3. Check "Only sync checked items" in the same tab.
4. On the computer you want to sync contacts and calendar, check the corresponding boxes in the Info tab. UNCHECK everything else in the MUSIC, PHOTOS, PODCASTS and VIDEO tabs.
5. Sync your iPhone with this computer FIRST.
6. On your other computer, follow the same steps above (1, 2 and 3). Then, UNCHECK everything in the INFO tab, and check everything else on the other tabs.
7. When you sync with this second computer, you may get a message that the iPhone has already been synced with another computer, and that the media library will be deleted. Fine. There should be NO media library on the iPhone since you unchecked all the media items on the first computer, right?
8. Sync. Then you can sync on both computers and each will sync what is checked and not overwrite the rest.
I have this working on two PCs with Windows XP. I have read posts of folks doing it with two Macs, and with one Mac and one PC.
This is not sanctioned by Apple, so I dont know if these steps are "correct". I only know that these are the steps I followed and worked for me. Your mileage may vary.

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