IOS 8.3 update leaves me unable to pair a Configurator-supervised iPhone

I've used Apple Configurator to supervise an iPhone 6, in part to prevent the phone from pairing with any computer but my own (a MacBook Air 11" from 2013 running OSX 10.9). I updated the phone to iOS 8.3, changed nothing else, and now the phone won't pair with my own computer or any other. As the screen cap shows, I get the error: "This iPhone is supervised by another computer and cannot be used with this computer." The iPhone apparently does not recognize that it is in fact attached to the supervising computer.
I checked the pair-lock records in /var/db/lockdown and they're just as they were. (I was following instructions there from this post.) I archived the lockdown folder, restored from a backup, and got the same result. I've rebooted both the Mac and the iPhone. No joy.
I do NOT want to wipe the iPhone and start again. For security reasons I do not back up my data to iCloud; I use only USB local sync and backup the computer securely. I do have a very recent backup on the computer, but of course I cannot restore it to a phone that refuses to pair.
I did use Configurator to set up a password on the iPhone that can remove the supervision profile. I can delete the profile and then connect to my Mac.
BUT: If I do that I'm pretty sure I can't set up supervision again without erasing everything from the phone. After erasing and supervising the phone, I don't think I can restore from the backup. Doing so, as I understand it, will either (1) remove the newly installed supervision profile or (2) restore the now-in-use supervision profile that does not recognize my Mac as the supervisor.
The most painful loss, if I have to wipe the phone, would be my hundreds of keyboard shortcuts. I know from extensive research that they cannot be restored, even with third party tools, from an iPhone backup.
Please, someone, help me restore the pairing of my iPhone to my Mac without wiping the phone.

Solved it, so I may as well say so here for the record. I don't know that all this was necessary but I:
- updated from OSX 10.9.5 to Yosemite (not enough on its own; launched iTunes and still no pair)
- updated Apple Configurator
- launched Configurator -- and it saw the iPhone. I quit without doing anything else
- launched iTunes -- this time it paired as usual with the phone
It may be I could have simply launched Configurator in 10.9.5, but I didn't try that first.

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