TS1741 Two iPhone 3GS' and only one connects to iTunes on imac with Remote.

Both phones connect to my Macbook fine, and both are running the same iTunes, which I had not upgraded at the time the software quit working. I tried a complete reinstall of iTunes on the imac, but it still hasn't worked. Itunes does recognize the phone and will sync with it for backup, just not pair Remote with it to control music. Any Ideas? My wife is very upset because she uses the setup tons.
Thanks

You can copy the entire 'iTunes' folder from one PC to another (using multiple transfers, if needed), then 'clone' the Library.
Copy all the folders and files (intact) over to the new PC to the exact same path. Then copy the Library database file as well. Open iTunes and your Library will be a replica of the old one - no importing necessary.
See: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1585950#1585950

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Greetings all,
While new to the forum my wife and I are not new to the Mac family. Recently we decided to bite the bullet and drop VZW in exchange for the Iphone 3GS. My question is, we currently have one email address and we each use that one to log in to our ITunes on our own laptop, will this cause an issue when we plug in the phones tomorrow for the initial set-up / activation? My other issue is, with all the info (songs, movies, pics, etc) on our separate ITunes accounts, if we go and change the email address / log-in info, are we going to lose all that info?
Thanks in advance for any insight anyone can provide.
Chris

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