IOS 5 not syncing music, photos, videos, podcasts

I've got iPhone 3GS and I've just upgraded to iOS5. It nicely backed everything up over WiFi and all my apps are back on the phone almost in the same order (with a few extras) as before. But there is one huge problem - none of my other content would sync. On the iTunes bar it shows as if everything is ok and ready to by synced, but when I press SYNC - nothing happens. Has anyone come across this problem? How do I solve it? Admittedly, some of my music is not straight from iTunes, but a lot actualyl is, along with podcasts and audiobooks and none of them wouls sync.
I tried restarting, restoring - everything.
I'm lost for ideas and words. What do I do? Thank you!

I'm having a very similar problem. Anything to do with itunes is only partially syncing. I have over 2000 songs on my imac but only 100 have come across.
I also did the restore thing and that did not help.
Also rang apple care and they just walked me back through everything I have already done.
This iSO5 sems to be highly problamatic.

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Hi Graham2307 and everyone else. I too have a similar problem, and similarly this is my first post also. Apart from your question I found I couldn't find any similar questions or solutions.
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