Ipod Touch only syncs apps while next, older touch syncs everything fine

Hi all,
Weird issue here. Don't know if it's an iTunes or Touch issue, but think topic is ok for here.
Both me and my wife have an ipod touch which we sync via the same pc (same iTunes), what worked out fine up to now. We have our own playlists we sync with the touch by selecting them in the music tab. These settings are equal for both, configured correctly, so iTunes knows it has to sync the music playlists selected. This works fine, as before, for my iPod. However for my wife's it does not anymore. The overview tab of the touch in iTunes nicely shows how much data is present in the selected playlists (little over 6 GB) and as said, the music tab is set such that it should sync selected playlists. The strange thing happens when actually syncing. It starts, syncs the apps and stops saying syncing is completed. No music, while everything is set correctly and recognized as such judged by the overview of data per type (i.e. apps, photo's, music etc.) in the overview. The one difference of today compared to the last time, when all was fine, is that I updated the software on my wife's touch. What can cause this? Any ideas?
Help appreciated; I can't see why it works fine on mine (older version touch), settings are equal, shows correctly in iTunes, but does not act like it when syncing.
Hope someone has an idea.
Thanks,
BMC

I have a theory that it's tied to Snow Leapord and/or iTunes, probably something Apple did to disable Palm Pre phones from being able to sync with iTunes. I've never seen that confirmed though, so it might nto be. All I know is I've been having this problem for a long time. I just tried iTunes 9.2.1 on my Mac hoping Apple had finally fixed it, but alas they didn't.
The solution I found? Get a PC and find an old version of iTunes. You give up some of the newer so-called features, and you've got to deal with a Windows box for your library, but at least the iPod will sync.
For more info/history, see:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11434111#11434111
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12060595#12060595
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