Iphone4 with IOS7.1.1 requests restore when connected to iTunes

I recently updated my iphone4 to IOS 7.1.1.
On subsequent connections to my itunes, it constantly requested that I restore my iphone from a previous back-up. Unfortunately, even when I pressed the 'restore' option, it would go through the process and then request once more. Hence, it wasn't letting me add music, apps, videos, etc.
This wasn't a problem as the phone was still 'usuable', however, became a problem when I wanted to re-add my music/videos to it.
I found the way round this was to follow an Apple Support Discussion from around 3 years ago, which suggested choosing the other option 'start as a new phone'... Which I previously hadn't wanted to do as I believed it would wipe everything I had - it didn't.
At present, I've found that it doesn't start the phone from new, but allows me to use it sync/back-up/add music, etc as normal.
Not really a discussion, but I'd be amazed if I was the only one that was having this problem. Hopefully the keywords in the title will lead other people to a solution it took me a ridiculous amount of time to find.
Good luck.

iPad: Basic troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3274
iOS: Resolving update and restore alert messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275
iPad: Unable to update or restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4097
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