ITunes Purchase on iPhone - Problem syncing

I recently bought a comedy album from the UK iTunes store (I am UK based) using my iPhone. Everything worked fine, the files were downloaded onto the iPhone and I can play them fine. However when I now try to sync the iPhone with iTunes on my iMac I keep getting an error message saying that the the drive on my iMac where the iTunes library is located, is unable to be written or read from, and the sync stops.
I have looked at the folder referenced and it has permissions for both read and write access, and I am able to move files to and from the drive via the finder.
Anyone else had this problem? Anyone able to suggest a way that I can solve the problem.
If I do a restore, will I lose the newly purchased files on the iPhone? if so will I be able to download the purchased files again from the iTunes store to my iMac/iPhone?
Thanks,
Chris

I've got the exact same issue and it's bloody annoying, I get all sorts of errors and timeouts trying to sync music from the Wireless iTunes Store back to my computer. Right now I have a "The iPhone 'XXXX" cannot be synced. The required disk cannot be found"
I've done hard resets and such, doesn't seem to do anything, unfortunately a restore will wipe your songs, so you'll have to persist trying, as sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, it seems to be okay with one song, but when it's more it seems to Time out.
Very annoying. I'm starting to get all these problems with my phone that I never used to, calls not coming through, syncing not working etc.

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