Sync iphone how not to lose photo roll?

I have a iphone and was using itunes on my work PC (winXP). I recently brought the new 13" Macbook, and have been trying to get my iphone to work with the Macbook.
I manage to transfer all my purchases to the mac, losing only songs copied via CD. I also deactivated the PC so itunes wouldn't think it was registered with another library.
But the problem is my iphone safari bookmarks, contacts and photo roll, will be deleted from the empty itunes library on sync. Is there anyway to get itunes to copy off the content from iphone, rather then sync no content from the macbook.
I am going to try the home sharing which is available with the latest itunes, but why is it that itunes does a brand new macbook has more content then my iphone, it really be nice if was two way sync.
Anyway any suggests would be appreciated.

Hi rang apple support and from the above managed to sync without any loss of data.
Apple suggested I could copy the itunes library from XP to Mac but thought this too complicated.
Also option of home share with version 9 of itunes, but couldn't install it on XP, download dropout.
What I did :-
1. I backup the iphone on the exist XP itunes library.
2. I backup the iphone on the Maxbook itunes store.
NOTE: Probably overly cautious but didn't wish to lose my contacts, calendar or bookmarks.
Couldn't find any setting to merge on iphone or itunes but appears it did do this.
3. I added a dummy contact and calendar entry to both iCal and the address book, as suggested.
4. Launched iphoto and imported in my photo roll, and set the delete photo option from iphone.
Need to sync to iphoto before sync itunes photos as itunes sync's to iphoto folder.
5. Did a full sync.
I got the standard warning messages, everything being trashed on my iphone and replaced with what was in my library, but didn't loss anything, yeaaaa....
Thanks for all the help.
Now trying to resolver bookmark problem with import of bookmarks.

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