Iphone not in my devices

Hi,
I have had an iPhone 3GS for 2 years, about 6 months ago, iTunes on my PC (Windows XP) stopped recognising my iPhone. The PC recognises it (ie. it shows up as a camera in My Computer and I can grab photos off of it.)
I didn't find it too much of a problem as my iPhone continues to work fine with my netbook. It is however annoying me because I can't fix it.
I have followed the troubleshooting guide for this in apple support and its not making any difference.
I have deleted and re-installed ALL Apple software to latest standard. I have also tried it with a brand new iPhone 4 out of the box and still no luck.
Please help, I am at my wits end with this thing!
Adam (a very frustrated iPhone owner)

The iPhone 5 with iOS 6.x requires iTunes 10.7 or higher. iTunes 11.0.1 is the current version of iTunes. If you have an earlier version of iTunes you'll need to update iTunes before you can sync.
The latest versions of iTunes requires OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later on your Mac. If you are running a version of OSX prior to 10.6.8 you'll need to update the OSX first.

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