Two macs, one iphone

I have a MBP that I use daily, it has all of my contacts, calendars, email, etc. I have a few albums in itunes, but not much. My iphone is synced with this computer.
I also have an old imac in the living room that is a dedicated music machine, with 140gb of tunes.
Is there no way to transfer music directly from the imac to the iphone? I can't believe this.

By "transfer music directly" I mean plug my iphone into my imac, have itunes recognize it, and be able to drag my music directly from the library to the iphone.
When I initially set up my iphone, I used my MBP, and now it is apparently "synced" with the MBP. I have it set to automatically sync calendars and contacts, but manually manage music and videos. This is the same way I set up my ipod.
Now when I plug the iphone into the imac, I get a message saying it couldn't connect "because no pairing record could be found" (or something like that).
I tried plugging my iphone into the MBP and then using the option button at itunes startup to manually choose the imac itunes library (over the local network). That enables me to have the iphone and the imac music all in the itunes window, but I still can't drag music from the library to the iphone. Also, if I try to change any of the sync settings in this situation, it gives me a warning message that the iphone is already synced with another library, and I will have to erase the iphone in order to sync it with a new library.
So the only way I have been able to get music from the imac to the iphone is to drag the physical files (from the imac itunes library folder in the finder) onto the MBP desktop (over the local network), and then add them to my MBP itunes library, and then I can drag them directly to the iphone.
I'm sure I'm missing something here, there has to be a better way!
Thanks for your help.

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