Iphone and touch being recognised as a camera

After spending most of last week sorting out my itunes ready for my sons new touch, I plug it in this morning to receive this message ' apple mobile device not started'
I follow the instructions left by some kind person on here and double check the settings in the control panel, and make sure that they are at automatic. They are but I reinput just in case.
Now both the touch and my iphone are being recognised as cameras when I connect to itunes. I also have an ipod 5 classic which has all my music on but am reluctant to try this as last time I did it cleared all my music!
Any ideas people, its my sons birthday on Saturday and I was hoping to have the touch fully loaded for him.
Many thanks in advance

Yeah I did that.
nada effect
Did I mention that for some reason the phone wouldn't initially send MMS, and then it did.
Now it won't again...?
Message was edited by: CitizenKaine

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