All apps grayed out in itunes

When I plug my iphone into my computer, itunes comes up, but when I click the my iphone button, then the apps button, all the apps are grayed out. I can't move them, I can't transfer apps from my computer to my iphone, I can't do anything.
Any ideas?
-Ralphie

Same issue here.
I recently bought a new laptop, authorised it for my iTunes account, etc, etc, transferred all my music, and everything was absolutely fine. HOWEVER, when I connected up my iPhone and transferred my App Purchases across to the new laptop(which was also fine incidentally), I found the iPhone screen in iTunes under the "Apps" tab is completely greyed out. I can't move apps around, and more irritatingly I can can't synch apps from iTunes to my iPhone. I've tried backing it up (which again works fine), checked every setting under the sun both in iTunes and on my iPhone, but no joy.
I've been scouring the net for answers and the only thing I've found is to check the Restrictions settings on my iPhone to ensure they are off. My apps Restrictions settings were already set to Off, so that's clearly not the problem. Both my iTunes and iPhone are running the latest versions and OS updates.
There seems to be literally hundreds of people with this problem if the threads on the net are anything to go by, but no-one seems to know the answer.
Any help very much appreciated. Thanks.

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