Switching from PC sync to MacBook Pro Sync

I have been syncing and backing up my iPhone on my PC. I am now ready to migrate everything to my MacBook Pro (13"). I tried to sync today with the Mac but I lost part of my calendar from the iPhone and lost most of my applications. I retrieved everything by restoring from the PC, but I had to reload all of the books on my Laridian app and the Mantis app. What is the best way to migrate all of my data from the iPhone (and PC) to the Mac, without losing the apps (including books) and the calendars? I also have a number of songs and podcasts on the iPhone. Can I also migrate those at the same time or do I have to go through a different process? When I tried to migrate this morning, I checked some of the boxes that seemed appropriate, but it appears that the process wanted to replace everything on the iPhone with what was on the Mac, but there is nothing on the Mac, so it wound up replacing all of my applications with nothing (basically erasing them) and only showing the last two weeks calendar and did not migrate any of the songs or podcasts. Is there an elegant (or inelegant) solution. Harland

If you live near an Apple store, the Apple store can help you with this.
If you have copy to iTunes media folder and keep iTunes content organized selected for your iTunes preferences on your PC, you can copy the iTunes named folder which is located in your Music folder which I believe is located in the Documents folder on a PC.
With iTunes quit on your Mac, place the copy of the iTunes named folder in your Music folder.
You need to authorize your Mac with your iTunes account with iTunes if you haven't already done so.
Before syncing contacts with the Address Book and calendar events with iCal on your Mac, enter one contact in the Address Book and one calendar event in iCal on your Mac. Make these up if needed, which can be deleted later. This will provide a merge prompt with the first sync for this data, which you want to select.
You can transfer photos from your PC to your Mac and use iPhoto to import the photos. You can use iPhoto to import photos from any digital camera including from your iPhone's Camera Roll.

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