IPhone no longer appears in iTunes

I have been syncing my iPhone(s) with iTunes since June 2007 on my G5 iMac running Mac OS 10.4.11. Yesterday, I finally updated my OS to 10.5.8 and the Leopard version of iTunes 9.0.2. However, my iPhone no longer shows up in the source pane of the iTunes window. I've repaired permissions, restarted, unplugged and plugged in my dock cable, all to no avail. Any suggestions?

I've already done just about everything there; I'm going to install iTunes 9.0.2 for the third time to see if a fresh download works. Remember, everything worked just fine with iTunes 9.0.2 in Tiger; but in Leopard, Software Update said I had to update again to 9.0.2. I did so, but still have the problem.

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