ITunes not recognizing my Address Book or iCal info

I just synced my iPod with my library. All my music transferred over fine but now, when I go to click the sync contacts and calanders button, iTunes doesn't read any of the info from my files. I just restored the iPod since I used it as a hard drive so that I could do a software restore.
I have over 300 contacts and 9 different calenders but iTunes won't recognize them. I can open them independantly. The info synced fine before I did my restore. Any clues?

I am having almost the same problem, except my iPod gets recognized but my iPhone does not.
The wierd thing is that iPhoto recognizes the phone and imports my pictures, but no matter what I do iTunes doesn't recognize it. I have reinstalled iTunes and the mobile device manager to no effect. The phone charges, but nothing else.
HELP!

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