IPhone showing as digital camera?

I have an iPhone 3GS upgraded with the iOS4 and I plugged it in to sync with iTunes this morning. This worked fine but the iPhone icon didn't appear in My Computer. After searching the internet I uninstalled the iPhone driver and reinstalled and this fixed the problem temporarily.
I unplugged and put it in again and the same thing happened (no icon) so I repeated uninstalling the driver and now the iPhone is installed as a digital camera. It's not even recognised by iTunes. I tried uninstalling everything (the driver, iTunes) and reinstalling and it just shows as a digital camera. How do I fix this?

^ I'm not really sure if that was the problem but I did manage to fix it.
There isn't a lot of information on the internet about this issue.. none that I have found anyway so for anyone that is having the same problem, just ininstall everything with "Apple Inc" in your program files, restart and then reinstall iTunes, plug in the phone and it should work.

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