ATV can't pair iPhone remote

Greetings all.
My iPhone 3GS (4.0.2) used to work fine as a remote for my ATV, but since I was forced to restore my ATV to fix a iTunes sync problem, it doesn't.
The remote App can see the ATV. When I enter the code into the remote screen on the ATV, it lets me enter the numbers, but when I try to click 'done', the ATV just makes that 'you can't click here' noise.
The regular ATV remote works fine.
The ATV is on the same wi-fi network as the phone.
I have tried the troubleshooting steps in the knowledge base article to no avail.
Any ideas?

I am having the same problem in that the iphone does not even show up under the remote section on ATV. I have three ATV units and it does the same thing on all of them. They all were accessible using the remote app in the past. Had no issues previously with pairing the iphone as a remote. Updated remote application just the other day and it still is not working. Anybody have a fix. My network is fine we have tons of devices that use it daily. ATV's are connected through ethernet.

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