Trouble with syncing my Iphone.

I was using a 8g 3Gs Iphone and I'm needing to sync it to my Itunes account and transfer my purchases, but every time I try to sync my phone Itunes is recognizing the phone under my sister's name but with my serial # and phone #.  I can get to step 5 of the syncing process and then I get an error message that talks about my sister's phone not being connected, so the syncing can not be completed. 
I'm needing to get my phone synced and the purchases transferred, so I can then switch over to a 32g 4G Iphone but I don't want to lose everything that I have already purchased on my old phone.

Find a new friend. If you don't have access to the last computer your phone synced with, you will have to force your phone into recovery mode & restore it as a new device to remove the passcode. All data on your phone will be lost:
Turn the phone off using the Sleep/Wake button, then the slide to power off. If you are unable to do that, press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time. When your phone turns off, release the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons. Then, leave the USB cable connected to your computer, but NOT your phone, iTunes running, press & hold the home button while connecting the USB cable to your dock connector, continue holding the home button until you see “Connect to iTunes” on the screen. You may now release the home button. iTunes should now display that it has detected your phone in recovery mode, if not quit and reopen iTunes. If you still don’t see the recovery message repeat these steps again. iTunes will give you the option to restore from a backup or set up as new. In your case, you will only be able to restore as new.

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