IPhone 5 not syncing correctly.

Hello guys,
Please bear with me as this question my seem a little bit long-winded but I really am stumped on this one. I've had an iPhone 5 since July of this year, and I haven't had a single problem with it. After purchasing it, I hooked it up to my iTunes account which I used with my old 4S and moved everything over.
A couple of weeks ago, my laptop went in for repair and I nearly lost all the contents of my hard drive. The guy in the shop managed to fix it and save a lot of my data, but I had to re-download iTunes and whatnot. Anyway, I put all of my music back in and set up my iTunes account again, and synced my phone with it. The issue here is that when I sync my music, it does not sync the music I have checked and it does not remove the music that I no longer want on the phone.
The issue is becoming very frustrating because I want to free up some memory but I cannot remove music on the phone by syncing with my iTunes library, and I cannot put new music on there. Do any of you maybe have the solution?
Thanks in advance.

I'm also having this issue - I'm getting about 27GB of garbage data put into the iPhone's 'other' category
iPhone 5 64GB
iTunes 11.4
MBP 10.8.5
iTunes is set to 'convert larger songs to 128k AAC', and it's trying to sync a 9,500 song library which is a mixture of aiff, wav, mp3, m4p and a couple of m4v.
Previously these all fit on my iPhone a treat. Left iTunes last night after already having transferred around 7000 of them - iTunes informed me i'd have nearly 10GB space remaining. Came back this morning and iTunes shows my phone is now 15GB over capacity. It shows all the library has synced though - no greyed out songs.
When I go to the phone, that says it has 7GB space remaining and only 1700 songs synced. in the music app itself, there's very few songs in there. Looking in Settings>General>Usage, there's no visibility of where that 27GB is being used up. Music category is only 11GB (which should be more like 38GB).
Please help I've wiped and resynced my phone 3 times now, it's driving me mental: I just want to listen to music. I've never had this issue with Android's drag n drop.

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