Can't restore my music and apps after ios5 upgrade on 3GS

I have an ipone 3GS 16 GB and a Macbook pro 13''. I did the ios5-upgrade yesterday, which worked fine but the sync didn't work through. All my Apps are empty although I see their pics and there's no music at all, only the recent potos available, no albums. I tried the sync several times, nothing different, it always shut down at the end of preparations for sync. I shut the pone down and restarted it new, no change. So, what happened, how can I make the complete sync happen?

Hi,
thanks for your recommendations, but I solved the problem   Thing was ONE photo file, which is probably corrupted and led to shutting down the sync. So I first skipped the 'latest entrys for the last 12 month' photos and all the other photo files during syncing and then added one file after another and finally found the one which had gone bad. So I'm going to delete this one and everything should work fine the next time (hopefully) ....

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