ITunes fails to transfer purchases from my iPad

Ongoing problems with certain apps have me wishing to restore to yesterday's iCloud backup, however I wanted to transfer my purchases to iTunes first. At each attempt iTunes just pinwheels whilst saying it is "waiting for sync to start", with no backup made. Sometimes it gets as far as "transferring purchases", but then stalls at a pinch of the bar and does not progress.
The mac I am trying to sync to is all up to date with iTunes 10, etc.
Does anyone have any idea how to get this apparently simple and risk-fee backup to work?

Right, I think I solved the issue.
It seems that having iTunes store set up with your Apple ID is not the same as having it Authenticated to that same account, so you need to do both. I also then downloaded a free app that was already purchased with this account, and then it seems that the backup will run.
So, set up iTunes with your Apple ID and Authenticate it with the same account.

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