IPhone 3GS - Snow Leopard 10.6.3 Upgrade; iTunes Won't Recognize iPhone

I was just wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem, or something similar.
Today I purchased Snow Leopard 10.6.3 upgrade and everything went smoothly, but when I decided to plug my iPhone in to transfer some ringtones, my iTunes wouldn't recognize my iPhone. I was thinking it was because of my software upgrade, but I followed all the instructions about this issue that Apple gives but nothing's working.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

There was no separate install disk that came when I purchased my computer. I have gone into Disk Utility and hit the verify button and everything comes up ok. I don't think I've ever hit the repair disk button, though.
The various issues include: freezing at some point while I'm working on the Internet or in mail or using Kodak; the screen 'bleeds' as I scroll through (where the image smears as I scroll); there is an occasional line that shows up on my monitor, but usually goes away if I close an app like Mail or if I restart the computer.
I did add RAM in accordance with the instructions on the apple website and my computer was running great after that...no freezing and it was running so much faster. Prior to adding the RAM and having my drive wiped clean at the Genius Bar, it was really bad. I was constantly having to shut off the computer and turn it back on because it was constantly freezing or the screen would just go black as if it had shut off, though it was still on. They could not find anything wrong with the computer that would cause it to have those issues and that's why they decided to wipe it clean and load Leopard. Of course, that gave me a new host of issues, but it seemed to resolve once I upgraded the version of Leopard they put on.
Should I still do the repair disk?
And yes, the computer is working. Of course, I'm still on Leopard and not Snow Leopard...I don't know what happened with that.

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I run 10.5.5 and have tried to update my OSX using software upgrade and when I click install it greys out then a few seconds later it turns blue again and nothing happens.
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