Cannot Sync to iPhone Cause iPad Software is too Old

Driving me nuts. I want my ipad and iphone to sync and when I try to restore my brand new ipad to my iphone, I keep getting an error that says, "The backphone "iPhone" cannot be restored to this iPad because the software on the iPad is too old."
But it's not. I've done this 5 times now. It is definitely up to date. Even updated the firmware on my iphone. No matter what though I keep getting this error.
Any ideas? Do you guys mirror data on both devices or not? Maybe I don't need to do this in the first place.
Seems like the right thing to do though.
Thanks for your help.
Peter

Am currently having the same issue! My iPhone 3GS is running 4.0.2 and the iPad, which I bought tonight, is running 3.2.2, and everytime I try to restore from the iPhone backup I get the same error, ie that the iPad software is too old and that it needs to be prepared as a new iPad first, then updated, then restored from the iPhone backup.
....but it doesn't work!!!!

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