Help!: The iphone cannot be synced. You do not have the privilege to make

Help!
I synced my iphone4 to a window PC before i get a mac recently.
So, when i try to sync my iphone 4 to mac.
I was told that "the iphone cannot be synced. You do not have the privilege to make changes".
1. i clicked store> authorize this computer. =failed.
2. restart mac. =failed.
3. reinstalled itunes. = failed.
4. restored iphone4. =failed.
Then,
I do logged in as admin.
I changed all the related folders' sharing/permissions to "read & write" for admin, me and everyone.
But still cannot be snyced for the music and photos.
I hopes that i can get the answer. Thanks.
So, what else can i do?
is there any solution?

other threads have users reporting the same issue. I have a 4s which has been running fine and just this morning has come up with the same error. I suspect some permissioning issue on the phone (just a hunch)

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I noticed that my iPhoto library (on an external disk) was not allowing write access and the drive had become locked, so to test, I migrated my library back to the main drive and set iPhoto to open that as the main library. I performed a sync with iTunes and all has gone trough fine.
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