IPad not showing in iTunes 10.4.1

If you can help, since upgrading to iTunes 10.4.1 my iPad, or iPod for that matter no longer shows in iTunes.
I've tried turning the Mac on/off, resetting the iPad, changing the lead, changing the USB port, uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes. iPhoto shows the iPad as does my girlfriends iTunes 10.3.1.
Its clearly a fault with the new software, any ideas on how it can be fixed. Many Thanks.

There may be various issues associated with updating to iTunes 10.4.1 but I was able to fix my problem with iTunes not seeing my devices. iTunes would start fine but connecting my iPhone or iPad would result in the beach ball hang. I noticed the same thing would happen if I tried to click on the MobileMe icon on the status bar so it pointed to a sync services problem. Looking in "~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices" I saw some "ErrorInfo.txt" files with "SyncDataDirectoryCorruptedException, reason = The Admin Database does not exist. It should have been created by upgradedb."
I had already reinstalled Lion to get iTunes10.4 back which didn't help so that step may not be necessary but I restored "~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local" from my Time Machine backup from the day before the 10.4.1 update and that fixed my problem.
I've re-updated to 10.4.1 and everything still works.

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Hi! I have this problem recently...
I plug my ipad to my laptop, open iTunes and my iPad doesn't show on it
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