3gs and iphoto/itunes issue

Hi am having a few problems with my iphone. It’s a 3GS running iOS4. Hope someone can help!
I plugged it into my Mac last night to take some photos off, but for some reason iPhoto didn’t do its usual auto-start. When I went in, it only showed about 10 or so of the photos on my phone (there are about 70 odd on there). I tried to sync, but it go tstuck in a loop and froze up
Also, itunes has stopped recognising my phone, error message reads "The iPhone canot be synced. The required disk cannot be found"
And now the camera roll is acting up. new photos taken this morning didn't appear on the roll until about 1/2 an hour after they were taken
Anyone got any ideas? My iphone has been faultless up until now (had it since January). I have had no problems with iOS4 until now

Have you tried resetting the phone?
Hold the home and sleep buttons till you see the apple logo, ignoring the swipe to turn off.
Once you see the apple logo, let go of the buttons and wait to boot up again.
On you mac, Fully quit iTunes and iPhoto with cmdQ.
Then start iTunes then plug in you phone and see if it recognizes it.

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Good Afternoon Everyone,
I am having some problems with my iPhoto at the moment. I have over 15,000 images in the library, and they all appear in thumbnail format under their respective dates, however when I double click on any image between roughly image 6942 and 12428 to enlarge it and look at it on full screen, a blank window is all I see, there isn't even a thumbnail of it where it should appear in full size.
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Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and right click on it. From the resulting menu select 'Show File (or 'Show Original File' if that's available). A Finder Window should open with the file selected. Does it?
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