Synch iPhone to new copy of iTunes on a new iMac

I have a new iMac and plan to migrate manually all my iTunes information from an older Mac. I don't belive the iPhone backup files will be coming over.
We have two iPhones a 5 and 4 that will need to synched up. Each phone is fully loaded and operational as we would like.
How do I best establish the new relationships for each iPhone and get backups occuring on this new iMac? I am fearful of the new computer and new iTunes wiping out all the customization and data etc on each iPhone.
Thoughts apprecaited!

Why do you need a new account?
Use the same account on both.
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