Can't Sync Music or Podcasts to iPhone4s

Since updating to iOS 7 I've had increasing problems with both Music and Podcasts. I have an iPhone 4s runing 7.0.3 and a Mac with an older OS Snow Leopard 10.6. I'm running the latest iTunes: 11.1.2
It started with Podcast where it would show up as being on my iPhone, but I'd get "This episode is Temporarily Unavailable" it says it's there, but it's not. This tarted with only a few Pocasts but now all are gone and will not re-sync.
Then I created a playlist on my mac and synced my iPhone. I sync by plugging it into my Mac. I have "Sync Music" checked in iTunes along with "Selected Playlists, artists, albums and genres" > I have a number of playlists checked. I have also tried syncing Artists. I followed some instructions in another thread saying I should uncheck "Sync Music" then recheck it. Doing that erased all the music I had on my iphone. When I re-checked, iTunes says it's synced, but the actual files are not transferred. I can so to a song on my iphone. The album art is there and it says the song is there, but it won't play. It just skipped to the next song...and the next and next since the actual files are not there.
According to the Itunes screen on my Mac, the playlists are listed as included on my phone, but they do not show up on the iPhone side. The "free space" bar along the bottom of itunes shows that it is mostly full, but that is also incorrect.
I have tried to Restore from a backup (a point before I wiped all my music) but that did not work either.
I would rather not have to do a full resotre to default if I can help it. I have aton of apps and it would be a huge job.
Have anyone else had a simliar problem? Anyone know how to get the actual files transferred even though itunes seems to think that it's been done?
Thanks

Thanks for the response. I did try shutting the phone off, but that didn't help. I ended up just deleting all the "empty" playlists I had on my iPhone and tried checking and unchecking the "Sync Music" checkbox a few times. Odd thing is that it keeps re-checking itself one second it's unchecked and re-sycing and the next it's checked again. So I did the other obvious thing that I hadn't tried and re-booted my Mac and my phone again. Now that the playlists were deleted on the phone side, it's re-syncing again. This time it's taking the hours I would expect as it it now copying songs over... so I might have it working.
I did it first with the podcasts, it took a while to re-copy, but then still came up with the "this podcast it temporarily unavailable. So that is still messed up. I have no playlists, but an copying by artist instead. I'll have to wait another few hours to see if it worked.
I turned off the "Sync podcast subscriptions and settings" like you mentioned. maybe after a few more repeated resyncs it will work.
The song by song hours long copy is a good sign though. thanks

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