Apple TV no longer syncing

You guessed it -- 3.0.1!
Nothing I buy on iTunes (on my desktop computer) 9.0.2 will now sync onto my ATV.
iTunes "pretends" to sync but nothing moves across to the ATV.
any suggestions??
thanks, Neil

Same here. 3.01....
Spent a week now syncing, resyncing, rebooting, reconfiguring, screaming and finally solving all my problems. I pulled the plug!!!
Not worth the aggravation.
Hopefully the competition has something that works!!

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