ISync can't be launched on this computer

This is almost a follow on from my first post raised on 24th Dec 2010, and may shed more light on the iSync issue - there's some great mac-minds reading these; I'm not really one of them, so some basic guidance would be ideal, for someone to nail the problem would be perfect.
1. every day or so, I get a warning message stating that the syncserver has unexpectedly quit, with option to cancel, relaunch, report to apple - this has been happening for a few weeks. Never gave it a second thought, not really sure when or why it started
2. now an iPhone4 owner, I'm wanting to sync between MacBook and phone, but when i plug the iPhone in i get "iTunes can not sync information with the iPhone as syncing has been disabled on this computer. Do you want to enable syncing?" Clearly I select 'yes', but get the warning "synching cannot be enabled on this computer" with an 'ok' or 'override'. When I click override, iTunes goes through the 5 stages of synching and has successfully loaded apps & music. Fine, but I want to sync contacts, calenders, bookmarks etc, so I select these options on iTunes and click 'apply'.... I get the same "iTunes can not sync...." followed by the 'override' option. iTunes then goes to a 1-step sync process and freezes, displaying "iTunes could not sync info to the iPhone because a sync session could not be started" From here I can only click 'OK', with the final status in iTunes suggesting sync is complete and OK to disconnect. -- none of the sync requests have begun.
3. I'm getting a **** of a lot of freezing / colour swirl lately - all applications seem impacted and switching between applications can be arduous - could this be linked?
Thanks all
Ben

I received the instruction from APPLE EXPRESS SUPPORT to insert this in Terminal:
/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/resetsync .pl reset
I did so and had this result:
2011-01-21 17:01:51.096 perl[345:807] SyncServer is unavailable: exception when connecting: connection went invalid while waiting for a reply
PerlObjCBridge: NSException raised while sending resetSyncData to NSObject object
name: "ISyncServerUnavailableException"
reason: "Can't connect to the sync server: NSInvalidReceivePortException: connection went invalid while waiting for a reply ((null))"
userInfo: ""
location: "/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/resetsy nc.pl line 38"
** PerlObjCBridge: dying due to NSException
Sync STILL DOES NOT WORK. Apple express said the mobile.me account handles this separately and does not use isync - but I am still in the same quandry - no syncing. What a pain. I keep looking and will post anything I find.

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