Iphone recognized by Windows as "digital camera"; unrecognized by iTunes

So yeah, I tried to update my iphone today and windows seems to think it's a digital camera. Of course, iTunes (probably because windows is telling it it's a digital camera) doesn't recognize it at all. What happened and how do I get my iphone to update and be recognized normally?

The iPhone IS a digital camera, so Windows will recognize it as such so you can transfer photos from it to your computer. If iTunes is not being recognized there are some standard debugging steps:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1495

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