IPhone: Stuck on "Waiting for device to connect.."

I just had to reinstall the latest 2.0 build after something trashed my iPod Touch, and now I can no longer install software on it. I get the very non-specific "Waiting for device to become ready in 5 seconds". When that expires, nothing happens.
Any ideas?

Found it: Something in xcode got confused. Rebooting the machine got things talking to each other again.

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