IPhone stuck on syncing contacts

I recently purchased a 16GB iPhone and have been very happy with it. Really good. However, this week it gets stuck on 'syncing contacts' whenever I plug it into the dock. I eventually reset the phone, backing it up at the same time, and whilst iTunes restored it to factory settings and restored all my text messages it refuses to sync the rest of the handset. The result is that I now have a phone wiped of all my music. I've tried a different dock but that makes no difference. What should I do? If you were to suggest reinstalling iTunes how can i avoid having to upload all my music onto my iMac again?

The iTunes music library should still be on your iMac, so when it syncs it should sync your music again. So reinstall iTunes; the library is separate from the program. Try temporarily disabling Contact sync so you can get through the sync and recover your music.
However, your Contacts problem is probably due to bad data in the Address Book database on the iMac. This is the problem you need to fix. I know how to do it on Windows, but you will have to wait for a Macspert to do that.

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