Sync issues - itunes on 2 computers

I've had my ipad for a few weeks and have bought tons of apps. Since then I tried to transfer some movie files to my ipad using the "digital copy" that comes with some blu-ray disks. My computer won't read these disks for some reason and just spits them back out (stupid Alienware $2500 laptop - I am not pleased).
BUT my old crappy Dell laptop does read them just fine. So I load itunes on that, successfully transfer the movies to that itunes and hook up my ipad. Of course itunes doesn't like that my ipad is already using a different itunes on a different computer, so my choices are "erase this ipad and sync with this new itunes database" or "pound sand, Jack". I played a little bit with it and yup, itunes wasn't kidding - if I want to use the new install to transfer the movies to the pad, it is going to erase all 7 pages of apps in the process.
So my best option is to use my old laptop just for syncing my ipad. What a waste but it might be the best way. How do I get the itunes on my old computer to have all the stuff I;ve bought on it so I can have my movies and my apps on it?
There must be a better way to manage this stuff.
Any help is super appreciated.
J

We live in 2 seperate areas during the year. I try to sync my and my wife's ipods to the computer in the house we are currently living in. I've tried making differential updates to transport to the other computer and I've tried making a total backup and transferring that onto the other computer. Neither work as advertised.
Whenever I change computers, I get a message telling me that the ipods are synced to another computer, etc -- no big deal, I can live with that. However, after syncing with the new computer, I find that all the flags indicating the play status have been reset, play lists are nested into other play lists, some playlists have been changed, and, finally, some items are missing.
Right now, I am being told, on this computer, that music I bought and videos - including a home video that I MADE - are not authorized to run on this machine! The irony is that they were ALL originally installed on THIS machine, ran last summer AND ran this past winter when xfered to our winter computer!!
Guess what I'm saying is, "lots of luck, your going to need it."

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Hi Everyone.
Firstly, a very Happy Easter!
I'm having lip-sync issues with iTunes playback on my PC. The video is largely smooth with the occaisional choppiness when the CPU is made to work hard. (Playback on my iPod Touch is fine).
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