ITunes not recognizing my iPhone after I updated my OS to Leopard

I have been successfully syncing my iPhone 3G for many months now. But this week I updated my OS to 10.5.6 and ran all the additional updates. Now when I plug in my iPhone, iTunes doesn't see it. I have iTunes 8 installed. I have shut down and restarted my machine and my iPhone several times.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Envision99 is nearly correct.
First thing to try is to re-install iTunes (download it HERE and run the installer) - but, there's no need to uninstall it first. If that does not correct the problem, you may need to remove and reinstall AMDS, as described in this linked kbase article.

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ITunes not recognizing my iPhone after I updated my OS to Leopard

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