Updating / Synchronizing iPhone with new computer - pruchased music lost?

Greetings all,
A friend of mine has an iPhone 3G which she uses happily to download music from the iTues store over Wi-Fi.
She has never synchronized this with a computer but wants the 3.0 update.
Do you guys know of any way that we can update without losing her purchased songs?
In case it is relevant, I do have a MacBook that she could sync with if that turns out to be better than using iTunes on Windows.

Purchased music can be transfered in itunes. Disable autosync, connect your phone, right click on your phone in the device list and choose transfer purchases.
The music will show up in itunes/Store list/purchases with iphone
Since you can only sync media content to one computer at a time, sync to the one she uses. If she syncs to your mac and changes back to her pc afterwards, all her music will be erased during the first sync.
And convince her to backup her phone from time to time
What's saved in a backup: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
How to: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
Message was edited by: Ingo2711

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So I have an iPhone 4 that I always synced with my Mac Book Pro. I now use a Mac Pro tower computer as my primary machine. I hear you can only sync with one computer at a time (is this true?) well if so, I'd like to start syncing my iphone with the tower for now on, but am concearned cause my friend was in the same predicament and had a bunch of stuff erased. I see online a lot of people say to manually transfer your music to the new computer and sync, but I want to make sure everything else is properally done as well including contacts photos and the text message / call history etc.
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Helping a friend of mine sync her iPhone to a new computer. She wants all the info on her iPhone to stay on her iPhone after the sync on the new computer. Problem is, iTunes wants to erase and restore her iPhone (because its a new computer).
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