All iPhone music suddenly shows as "other" - can't sync now as no room left

hi all,
i put my iPhone in its official apple combination iPhone & apple bluetooth headset dock to sync it. for some unknown god-forsaken reason, it then gave the warning that this is not a device designed to connect to the iPhone specifically, and asked if i wanted to go into airplane mode (??? - this has never happened before, and this is the official dock from apple for the iPhone and bluetooth headset). i clicked "no" (if there had a "HELLS NO!" i would've clicked that). this was syncing to a black macbook core 2 duo with leopard on it. now, after syncing, all my wonderful music and videos that were on the drive of my 8 GB iPhone now show as some unknown "other" and i can't access any of it — none of my songs, videos artists or playlists are showing as anything but blank, but the iPhone's 8 GB's are filled up completely with this "other" in the graph in iTunes of what is on my iPhone. i've tried re-syncing and haven't gotten the same error — it syncs all my contacts, calendars and mail ok, and i've gotten a couple of my podcasts on, but all my other music and video won't sync now as it shows this "other" is taking up the whole drive. who do i report this to? how do i fix it? please advise.

I just got through fixing this ordeal
my iPhone's music and videos displayed in iTunes as orange other instead of purple and blue for videos and music respectively
here is what you've got to do
1. sync the phone once before you start
2. make sure you sync contacts, bookmarks, mail and calendar with some source (everything under info tab)
3. click the restore button in iTunes on the iPhone's page
4. confirm all messages, this takes forever so just wait
5. the iphone will restart and iTunes will say what do you want to do with this new iphone
6. tell it restore to setting of your iPhone's name
7. this takes even longer than step 3 and 4
8. when it restores, the iPhone will turn off and back on and the bar will show that there is no data on it except for a few orange "other" files (the ones that are supposed to be there)
9. go through each of the tabs on the top of the iphone page and make sure music, videos, podcasts, pictures is selected to sync the way you want it and sync it
10. this will take forever more than step 7, it took me 40 minutes, but I have USB 1.0 so everything on this will probably be shorter for new (or just not old as dirt) computers
11. this should fix the problem, it didn't for me, when i went to iPod on the iPhone it suggested buying music from iTunes because I had none i just synced the phone one more time and all of the music appeared when i opened iPod (this takes as long as a regular ole sync)
there you have it your iPhone is good as new (except it didn't fix my broken screen:( )
i have heard that this problem is because of some glitch between iPhone 1.1.4 and Windows XP, but IDK
earlier today i was messing with the manually manage my music and videos option maybe this somehow triggered it, thats the only thing i can think of

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