Syncing iphone with PC and MAC

I easily sync my Outlook 2007 calendar and contacts with my iphone 4 via iTunes. I recently got a iMac laptop and want to sync my iphone with it too. However, when I sync it via iTunes, all the calendar and contact information on my iphone is wiped out. Here is what happens:
When syncing with the MAC, iTunes tells me I have synced with another account and would I like to merge the information or replace. I always choose Merge. I click that I would like to sync contacts and calendar, notes and bookmarks. Then I click sync and it always wipes out my contacts and calendar info on my iphone. How can I get the information from my phone to sync with the MAC?
Thank you in advance!

have the same problem. Prior to the upgrade to iOS4 I was happily merging the calendar and contacts on my iPhone (3GS 32MB) with my office PC in Outlook and my home MacBook Pro with address book and iCal. I ad been doing this for 6 months without problems. Since the upgrade I have had no end of problems. If I sync at work, choose the option to merge, I get everything in the correct place. I then come home and try to do the same with my mac, again choosing the merge option but it wipes all data from the work PC and replaces with the now outdated data on my mac. Somehow the mac is over ruling the merge option. There are numerous different data entries in each compter now so it is nothing to do with one being empty.
this seems to be a common problem amongst colleagues with 2 computers and one iPhone, has anyone solved it yet or are we simply waiting with bated breath for Apple to solve it?

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