Itunes thinks my iphone 4 is new, and asks to set it up, but it's not new, what should I do

Hi everyone
Recently, itunes started popping up periodically saying that my iphone is new and asks me to set it up or to restore from backup, but it's not new, this happens both on wifi and when connected via cable, I have no idea why this is happening and don't know how to fix it.
What should I do?

Resetting didn't affect anything.
I haven't done anything different or changed the library.  Like any other day, I just took it off of the cradle this morning, went about my business all day and put it back on the cradle when I got home.  But now, instead of synching, it says "This computer has previously been synched with an iPhone or anohter iOS device"  and wants me to restore from a backup.
The backups it is showing me (there are 4) look suspicious because it says "last backed up: 10/16/2011 8:18 PM" but I set iTunes to back up the phone every time I dock.  So something is definitely not right with the backup.  Consequently I don't want to restore from backup until I know what happened to the latest backup.

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