Unable to sync iPhone over USB - MobileMe settings SNAFU!

I've been using my iPhone for about a month without enabling its MobileMe sync settings for my contacts, calendars and bookmarks. This was by mistake.
Now I would like to turn on those settings. However, when I try to do that I am told it will erase the existing contacts in my iphone. This is unacceptable as I have added new contacts in my phone over the last month and would simply like to merge them with the contacts on my computer.
The obvious solution is to sync my iPone with with my computer via USB and iTunes, then sync my computer with my MobileMe account, then enable MobileMe syncing on my iPhone and overwrite everything with the thoroughly updated info.
HOWEVER
This simply will not work. I can't sync my iPhone with my computer because iTunes keeps telling me that "Your contacts are being synced with your iPhone over the air from MobileMe." This is happening DESPITE the fact that I have turned off all of the MobileMe syncing options on both my iPhone and my computer. To be more specific, on the iPhone under HomeScreen/Settings/Mail,Contacts,Calendars/Accounts/MacIMAP - all of the sync settings are set to "Off." Moreover, under Homescreen/Settings/FetchNewData - the Push option is set to "Off".
All of this and iTunes still insists that my phone wants to sync over the air from MobileMe.
Why can't I convince my computer that the phone settings are off and thus enable USB synching??
Any help would be MASSIVELY appreciated!
And happy Thanksgiving, by the way!

You're welcome.
An IMAP account is specifically designed for this.
POP accounts are more common than IMAP accounts, but IMAP accounts are not being phased out - not by a long shot. Supporting SSL for the incoming mail server and outgoing mail server is up to the email account provider for the email account. Some POP account providers support this, and some don't. I've never accessed a POP account provided by an ISP that supported SSL or provided an authenticated SMTP server.
A MobileMe account is accessed as an IMAP account, and Apple supports SSL for the incoming and outgoing mail server, and the outgoing mail server is also authenticated.
You can access a Yahoo account as an IMAP account with the iPhone's Mail client only - not with an email client on your computer.
You can access a Gmail account as an IMAP account with any email client.

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