IPhone 3G no longer recognised by iTunes 8 under 10.5.5

Running my phone with 2.1 on an intel iMac with iTunes 8 and 10.5.5
The phone no longer shows up under the devices list of iTunes. This has only happened in the last couple of days and seems to have co-incided with "upgrading" from 10.5.4 to 10.5.5
Anyone else have this problem? One suggested solution was to disable the genius function, but this doesnt have any impact upon the problem. iTunes wont see my iPod Touch and also has sporadic problems seeing the Apple TV, although the latter does eventually show up.
It does seem to be 10.5.5 that is the problem as I've had no previous problems either with the fw 2.1 or upgrading to itunes 8 and using the genius function.

Well I'll give this a try, but I see no reason why this should necessarily help. My phone has been plugged into a USB port on an Iomega MiniMax external hard drive and has been instantly recognised for weeks before a couple of nights ago.
Its extremely frustrating that on a £1200 computer you only get three USB ports - absolutely pathetic considering the mini has 4. I've seen apologists for Apple saying that the keyboard gives you more, but what if you use bluetooth? And as anyone knows - try using a keyboard hub for anything more than a mouse, and misery soon results!

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