Computer de-authorized

Anyone know the reason why my Mac would suddenly just be de-authorized? I have one computer that has always been authorized for my iPhone. The last time I synced my phone (last week), all was fine. Today, I'm getting the message *+"This computer is no longer authorized for applications that are installed on the iPhone 'xxx'..."+* I don't want to be doing something (like re-authorizing) my iPhone or iTunes, only to have it get messed up. I haven't been very much confident with Apple and their mobile software ever since my issues updating to iOS 4.
So 1. I want to make sure that it's okay to Authorize my computer, even though I never de-authorized it in the first place. And 2. Why did it do that in the first place, when all was fine before, with nothing new added or removed since the last time I synced.
Thanks.

F'n iTunes. Tried to re-authorize, and got the 5002 error message. So I looked that up and a bunch of tips came up. I decided to do the easiest, repair permissions on my Mac. After permissions was repaired, I hooked up my iP again, and again it asked me to re-authorize because my computer "wasn't authorized". I hit re-authorize, it looked like all was well, then I suddenly got a message "this computer is already authorized...blah, blah, blah...you can authorize up to 5 computers.", I hit ok, and the syncing went on as if nothing ever happened. ***?! What is Apple doing over there? Their once amazing and reliable products are acting like as if they got MS to work on them. Putting out garbage after garbage. Geeeez. In all my years as an Apple user, I have experienced more "crap" in the last 6 months, than I have in the last 20 years prior to that. Like I keep saying, it's all about the glitz and glam these days for Apple, they've stopped with the reliability and simplicity. What used to "just work", is now "works when it feels like it".

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