Please help - my iphone is not being recognized by itunes or iphoto.

I recently had to have my hard drive replaced (by Apple under warranty). Ever since then, iphoto and itunes do not recognize my iphone. I had the same problem at my work computer today (a G4 tower running a lower version of OS X than I have at hoime), but the issue was resolved after I 'reset' my iphone (held down power button and main button, replugged in, etc.) No such luck at home after trying the reset/restart/reopen iphoto/itunes several times over.
-I checked Image Capture to see if iphoto was set to the default photo software viewer; it is.
-I updated my itunes software tonight. Didn't help.
What else can I try??
Please help, if possible...

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so today i tried to update my musics on iphone and i plugged into my PC, i heard the usual sound of being recognized as charging but iTunes didn't recognized it..., i tried at least 2 other cables i have and nothing (recognized by PC not by iTunes), and so i started to google some things to try to fix it but i cant seem to find something that helps me, i tried to uninstall the driver, i updated itunes, turned on the apple mobile thing under services, downloaded USBAAPL.SYS and put it under system32 folder but i can't seem to fix it. Can anyone help me out?
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Thank you for your report.
Congratulations for all your initiative, all of those steps were pefect to solve this issue. Well you can try another one ( unstalled and installing itunes on windows 7 ). Also you can try to change the usbs ports on your computer and the usb cable too. In case it do not solve your issue try another computer maybe there is a software on you computer that do not work with apple software.
Thank you.
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
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iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
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iTunes for Windows: Device Sync Tests
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IOS: Syncing with iTunes
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