Brand New Iphone 4 won't appear on device listing

I've just got a new iPhone 4 and I plugged it in to my computer to initially register it for use but my computer would read the phone but iTunes wouldn't register it on the device list.
I brought it to work today and it worked fine. Came home and tried a number of things such as removing iTunes and not restarting etc. I've been at it for nearly 2 days now and I'm none the wiser. I've just got no idea what to do with it. It charges on the computer, it appears on the computer as being an iPhone but iTunes won't do a thing with it.

I bought it custom built from overclockers and it only had the operating system and updated drivers with it. I don't think it could be that. I've looked after it well. My friend had a jailbroken phone registered on my iTunes for awhile would that have had any conflict with iTunes for future devices connected to it at all?

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