Two iPhones - Three Computers

Sorry for the long post here... but I am stumped.
I have two iPhones... one I just purchased this week and one that I have had for a couple of months. I also have two PC's at home and my company laptop.
I am having problems syncing my wife's iPhone to her PC... I can go back to my PC (BTW this is the iPhone that is a couple of months old) where the iPhone was setup and intialized for service and it syncs and backs up fine. On my wife's PC I can see her phone in iTunes... but go to sync and backup... it just flashes on the phone for a second and nothing happens. I have thought about doing a restore... but there are quiet a few contacts on the phone that I really don't want to chance loosing.
Issue two... I just noticed on my new iPhone that I purchased this week that I am experiencing the same thing on my (home) PC... the only difference is I can reboot the PC and it seems to take the sync... at least it shows in the sync records as being a good backup.
Are there limits to iTunes or the iPhone to the number of devices you can sync or backup.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. BTW... I have also removed and reinstalled iTunes on her PC and still have the same issue.
Thanks,
Ronnie

I understand your problem; my wife and I each have an iPhone and I do the syncing for both. I previously used a Windows machine for this, and had many problems, most due I suspect to using that particular flavor of Windows. I could sync under different user names but it was a hassle keeping two copies of iTunes up to date, since I buy and use most of the music and video and had to make choices for her iPhone based on what I thought she might like to listen to or watch. Now that I use a Mac the syncing process is much smoother.
As for the contacts, if you're using Windows, all your contacts...yours and your wifes'...are backed up in the Windows Address Book, whether you use the WAB or not. This can lead to some interesting scenarios if either of you have some contacts you want to keep private. Find the .wab file in your Windows folder and by backing that up, you will be backing up your contacts. By renaming the backup you should be able to do a restore if by chance you overwrite the file with a sloppy sync.

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