Cannot Sync - Waiting for changes to be applied

Cannot sync iphone. It recognizes the phone and will perform the backup upon connection but I am getting a message that says "waiting for changes to be applied" and it will not sync. I have iphone 4 with OS 5.1.1 and Windows 7 with SP1. I had to dump my Windows 7 and reintall. All software seemed to have installed correctly and without issue.
Restarted iPhone, Restarted computer. Made sure computer is authorized and iPhone is recognized in iTunes. Transferred purchases from iPhone may or may not have worked.
Please help!

Alright, so I reset my computer and suddenly it then recovered. Other times it wouldn't recover after resetting the computer, so I have no idea how it happened. I just restarted the computer lots of time and finally it worked.
Okay, back to square one. Now to transfer music, I tried my previous acknowledgable solutions but they didn't work. The iPod touch does not feature a hard-disk mode, and windows media player doesn't support iPods.
I've tried multiple programs to transfer music but none of them work properly and keep giving me error codes. So my iPod still gets stuck at Step 4: Waiting for changes to be applied or whatever it said.
Thanks in advance ._. (Please help)
p.s - Apple is useless. If I don't get steady answers tomorrow I'm going to end up calling them and get this problem fixed first hand. Second hand? I don't know, over the **** phone.
juiceb0xk signing out for the night. Bye. >:(

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juiceb0xk signing out for the night. Bye. >:(

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