ITunes Applications Tab Freez-Up Issue

Has anyone else experience this? I've tried rebooting both the iPhone and my computer, I even called tech. support and followed their suggestion to uninstall and re-install iTunes. I did. It did not work.
I've seen posts from others dating all the way back to 2005, so clearly this is an issue that recurrs. Has anyone had any luck at all resolving this?
It's a pain to have to download aps via the iPhone when I have a new phone and need to put many apps. on at once. Also, I've found that it is randomly putting unselected addresses in my contacts and randomly removing apps. when I update... What a pain! It's difficult to trust a program not to screw up my data on my apps. when it can't even manage basic functions!
The iPhone is only as good as its ability to be backed up on iTunes, folks!
Hoping someone can help...

Yes, I'm having trouble with the Applications Tab, too.
I can't get the Applications list to scroll, or any of the check boxes to change when I click on them.
Also, the Home Screens view on this tab only shows four screens... I have 68 Apps on my iPhone, spread over six screens. I can't scroll the Home Screens view to show any more than four screens.
All this makes the Applications Tab practically useless to me.
Could someone at Apple please check out this issue and come up with a fix for it?
iPhone OS: 3.1.3 (7E18)
iTunes version: 9.0.3.15

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