Itunes indicates update necessary but won't

i have an iphone 4. i plugged it into my mac to sync with itunes. sync worked fine. but, on the itunes home page for my phone it indicates that there is a newer version of software for my iphone. i know this because it's been a while since i synced it. but, when i click the update button, itunes says that my itunes software is up to date. i know my itunes software is up to date and its the phone version update that i'm trying to perform but it keeps refusing to allow the phone update to occur because it says that itunes is up to date. thanks in advance!!!

If you're running 10.4.11 as your profile indicates, you've probably hit a wall on how far you can go. You'll need to upgrade to at least 10.5.8.

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I can successfully download updates when they are available (i.e. greater than the current 5 listed).
Thanks for your assistance in advance.

I was having same problem a while before but I figured it out that there are some Apps which is not passing actual update values from server to download list, first you need to know how its all works, every time you will download Apps your account will be marked that you have purchased/downloaded an App, when update is available its will send message to everyone how has that App to download update, but some Apps will not update directly or some other problem.
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Turn on WiFi or 3G and open your account from iPad and check updates.

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Hi Refvoxa,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If you are not able to play or download a movie rental on your iPad, first restart your device:
Restarting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red "slide to power off" slider appears, and then slide the slider.
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Note: Reset your device only if you are unable to restart it.
Resetting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
iOS: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
After your iPad restarts, try resuming the download again:
If your download was interrupted using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
From the Home screen, tap the iTunes app.
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Enter your account name and password if prompted.
Tap the blue download arrow to resume.
iTunes: How to resume interrupted iTunes Store downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1725
If the movie still does not appear in Downloads, and can't be played, I recommend reporting the issue with your purchase:
How to report an issue with your iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, or iBookstore purchase
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1933
Regards,
Jeremy

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Hi Polydorus - Happy New Year!!! Thanks for your time and reply.
Yes i have a 32bit version of windows vista (premium)
Yes i downloaded itunes from the apple site, saved it and when i try to run it i get the hourglass for 1 second then nothing.
Looked in the task manager and nothing is running.
Never had any problem installing anything else or anything windows related.
I have spybot (rescanning now) and my antivirus is Nod32 so no risk of anything there. I even tried installing in safe mode, but no luck.
I am running firefox, not I.E. but that shouldn't matter.
I realize this is where people with problems come to gripe, but there seems to me to be a LOT of problems associated with itunes?
Spybot found nothing, Nod32 is Hey?????
While typing this, i was downloading Quicktime from the link you sent to test if that works, the file I've downloaded was named itunes setup(2) shouldn't it be quicktime?????? Guess it automatically called it (2) cause i already got itunes setup in my download folderit's the exact same size as the itunes setup file i've been downloading??????
Now the apple website actually says thanks for downloading Quicktime 7 not a thing about itunes.
Click on the download now link on the site you sent me, http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ wants to download me the itunes file not quicktime??? Try it !!
Maybe the people at apple got on the grog a bit before Christmas???
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WHAT THE ..... ???????????
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