Can't upgrade ios on iphone 3GS from 3.1.3 to 4.2

hope somebody can help here as i have been trying quite hard here.
i have an iphone 3gs and use as a host my powermac g4 running on mac os 10.4.11.
itunes has been upgraded to 9.2.1
i do what has been asked and connect the iphone to the mac and the itunes account comes up telling me i can upgrade my phone to ios 4.2 by pressing the upgrade button.
when i do the mac connects to iphone upgradeapplication via the net and than gives me the following message in a seperate window:
"This version of itunes(9.2.1) is the current version"
I have tried to switch various sync options on and off in various places, but allways get the same result. Have also reinstalled itunes twice now amongst several restarts on mac and phone.
No result.
Can somebody help ?

iOS4 requires Mac OS X v10.5.8 or later and iTunes 10.1 or later

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