Apps Sync Greyed

I have iTunes 10 and an iPhone 3G. I am running Microsoft XP with sp3 The apps sync page in iTunes is greyed out and will not allow me to do anything. I have downloaded a new app (NavFree) but can't install it to my phone and the screens shown on iTunes no longer allow me to move the icons about. Basicaly the screen is inactive. HELP

Here's the really terrifying thing about your problem--once you agree to "wipe out" your existing apps with the ones "on this iTunes", it'll immediately ask you if you'd like to install found apps on your phone that the iTunes currently doesn't have. In other words, they make you take a leap of faith before you find out it's all good in the 'hood.
We just got a new Macbook and got the same message--but we backed up the 3GS on an existing iTunes on an old computer we were using just to play it safe, and went with the advice knowing we'd still have a backup file if it didn't work.
Still, it's absolutely horrible that the program insists it'll wipe your files, only to simply re-install them a fraction of a second later once you say "yes".
Hope that helps.

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