ITunes 11 sees my iPhone 4GS but doesn't show an icon to select it.

Although iTunes sees my iPhone and automatically syncs, the iPhone does not show up in the left column of iTunes11 in order to select and change the sync settings. I have iOS 6.0.1, MacBook Pro with MacOS 10.6.8, iTunes 11.0.1. I've tried all the remedies in the troubleshooting assistant except reinstalling iTunes. Phone works fine. iTunes works fine except for this problem. From scanning the discussions, this seems like a frequent problem lbut I have not found a solution. If this is a known defect in iTunes 11, is it possible to go back to iTunes 10?

future_man wrote:
 This was all working before the last round of OS X and iTunes updates.
I wish you had mentioned that a bit earlier.
Any third party add on's for iTunes installed? If yes, disable them.
Got to Disk Utility's and perform a permissions repair on the system drive.
Don't bother about upcoming warnings, you can safely ignore them.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1448
After the run is finished, reboot the Mac.
Lupunus

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