All iPhone Music is Greyed out in iTunes

Hi,
Probably something simple but I just connected my iPhone and started up iTunes (9.0.1) to find that all the music and many of the menu items are greyed out. I can't edit any of the iPhone playlists or drag new music to the iPhone's library and yet I have managed to sync all my applications again etc.
The phone is 'alive' and working fine. All the music is still on it and plays okay on the device itself. I have disconnected and reconnected several times to no avail.
My son has connected his iPod Nano in the meantime but this has never been a problem before now.
Any ideas would be most welcome.
Many thanks in advance,
Colin

If you want to manually manage music and video with you iPhone, this must be selected under the Summary tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes. If the music that is on your iPhone was transferred via the iTunes sync process, changing to manually managing music and video will erase all iTunes content on your iPhone first.
An iPhone can be synced or manually managed with an iTunes library on a single computer only.

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