Cannot sync audiobooks

My wife's iphone 3GS will not sync audiobooks. My iphone 3GS will. We are syncing to the same computer with the same itunes, files, etc. On her phone in the syncing window under the "music" tab there is no "audiobooks" box to check. If I check "entire music library" the audiobooks do not transfer. If I create an audiobooks playlist and put the audiobooks in the playlist, the playlist does not show up in the syncing window with the other playlists. If I do the same thing, but include a music file in the playlist, then the playlist shows up--but when I check it only the music file syncs.
Apparantly her phone just can't "see" the audiobooks. Anyone have an idea what is going on, or better yet how I can fix it?
Thanks.

Well, im having the same issue. I have 3 audio books and for some reason one of them that I just purchased using the app store on my 3gs is in my Audiobooks area of my playslists, but when I sync to my computer to try and get the other ones, they wont move over to my iPhone. And if I uncheck all 3 books and try to remove the one book that is on my phone, it wont remove either. Ive tried syncing All Audio Books, and tried syncing Only Selected audio books, neither of those options work. Any idea's? Im using an 32 gig iPhone 3gs with the 4.01 update and iTunes 9.2.

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