Transfer calendar and contacts from iPhone to iMac and Mobileme

Hello
I know this question is touched upon regularly, but I am overwhelmed by the richness of the information!
The address book and calendar on my iPhone are complete and up to date. I want to transfer them to my new iMac and and to my MobileMe account, replacing (or adding to) the incomplete subsets on these. Can some kind person explain in noddy terms what I do? I am confused whether my starting point should be iTunes, settings on the iPhone or preferences on MobileMe.
Once all three places have the same information, I hope to keep the three in sync - if I can work out how.
thanks in advance

Hi
After much struggling the problem has been solved. Although the solution did not come from this list, I thought I would tell you what I did, in case it helps someone else in the same situation.
I think the two things which helped were:
- deleting all entries from the Mac and MobileMe
- creating a new MobileMe account on the iPhone settings (it was exactly the same as the old one, but, who knows...)

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