Can't clear music from iPhone 4 even though iTunes shows it as empty

I recently switched from a PC to a Macbook Pro (this week, so I am VERY fresh). I followed some online instructions from an apple to transfer my itunes contents to the Mac using an external hard drive. I did everything it said, but when I added the music to the Mac, the music transfered but none of the playlists did. I read on another forum that I could drag and drop the itunes media file directly to itunes. This added all of my music to itunes but no playlists, so I manually recreted the playlists. So now my Mac has all of my music with all of the same playlists and no duplicates. (My books, apps, and pics all transfered as well).
I plugged my iphone 4 into the Mac to sync and everything seemed right, until I went to listen to music on my iphone and all of my playlists were empty - all of my music was still on the iphone, and the playlists were there, but empty. So I read some more forums and did a couple of things they suggested. First was to convert ID3 tags. After doing that, I tried to sync and got an error msg from itunes saying the iphone couldnt sync because it does not have enough space. Second, I tried unchecking all playlists in itunes (which were all still there), syncing, rechecking all playlists, and syncing again. This served to clear the (empty) playlists off the iphone, and then when I tried to sync with them all rechecked in itunes, I got the same error msg - not enough space on the phone.
So this is where I am now - all of my music from my PC is still on my iphone. I have no playlists at all on the iphone. When the iphone is plugged in and I click the arrow to show the music on the iphone it shows that it is empty, but in the summary view, it still shows that the phone is full of music (8gbs or so, the same amount that it was before all of this).
Both the phone and itunes are up to date.
I'm thinking if I can wipe the music off the phone, I should be able to sync and everything will be dandy - but the music just will not leave!
I don't use Match, and when the phone tries to sync vis wifi the same error comes back.
Can anybody help me??  (sorry so long)

Well seeing there was no response here I went ahead and reinstalled the iOS.  It fixed the issue.

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