ITunes Wifi Sync Issues

After updating my Mac to Lion & IOS5 on both iPhone & iPad, wifi iTunes syncing seemed to work fine for the iPhone but for the iPad it took forever (hours) every time.
It shows all my photos, songs, videos, etc. being loaded onto the iPad each time, even though I'd only made a change or two since the last sync. It was like it was restoring from backup or setting up a brand new device. On the iPhone it syncs in just a minute or two & only upates the changes.
Now, out of the blue, every time I try to sync the iPad, either on wifi or with USB cable, as soon as I connect the iPad it locks up iTunes.
I see everyone saying to turn off the wifi syncing in iTunes but I cannot get to the page where you set all your choices for syncing, song & photo transfer, etc. I can see the iPad in the Library but I cannot select it. As soon as I unplug the USB cable it shows the iPad option screen for a split second & then iTune is no longer frozen & works perfectly otherwise.
I have tried turning off wifi on both the iPad & Mac becasue it is only supposed to synce when they are both on the same wifi but it still shows my iPad in the Library list, even though it is not on wifi or connected to the Mac via USB.
I have also gone into the iTune Prefs & turned on the "Prevent devices from syncing automatically" switch & nothing works.
Any help on how I can get this thing to stop trying to sync via wifi & go back to the old USB way?
Many Thanks!

I am having the same problem. Update did not go well since Ipod could not be restored from back up due to back due to back up not being found. Backed up two days before just in case and still could not find back up.
Since updating to IOS 5.0, apps are startiong to sync and then time out but none of my music will sync over a wired connection.

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It doesn't show up on the device list.
Things i tried:
1.     Quit iTunes (Finder > iTunes > Quit iTunes)
2.     Restart computer
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3.     plugging in the USB cable.
4.     Go to Preferences --> Devices --> option "prevent iPod, iPhone, iPad to sync automatically" isn't checked.
          --> Makes sense, since my iPad is connected and syncing properly. Double checked it anyway.
5.     Searched on Google: not finding anything useful. searched on words like: osx + itunes + wifi sync + not showing
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Apple. Listen.
This isn't a question. This is a statement. You broke something. You will fix it. And you will tell us when you do.
You've seen this problem in a few dozen discussion threads already: if iTunes WiFi sync is enabled with an iOS device and you walk out of range with that device, one of your little service applications -- ATH.exe -- completely loses its mind. It starts using 100% of a processor core and blocks any further attempts to sync with the iOS device until the process is killed.
Even on iTunes 11.
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Yeah. It's an inconvenience. Piddling, really. I'm sure we're all complaining about nothing. Except -- well, a lot of us did kind of spend an awful lot of money because we happen to think your product has an edge, for whatever reason, over your Android-based competitors. It isn't so bad that we can't do the WiFi sync thing so much as it's awful that everyone else can.
Unless of course you (spent even more money and) run iTunes on a Mac. Those people probably don't have this issue. So maybe you owe us a little love. Maybe you owe it to us in a big darn hurry. Maybe you should care just a tiny bit more about the usability of one of the primary marketable features of iOS since version 5.
This isn't a question. It isn't even really a choice. You pretty much have to do it. So you will.
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Do we understand each other? Wait -- no, that's a question. Yes. We do. We understand each other perfectly.
Now get to work.

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This will show all your iTunes purchases in your library with a cloud icon down arrow. Click the icon to redownload or click on Play to stream without downloading.
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tshark -i en0 -c 500 -n -f "host 172.16.0.172"
Capturing on 'Ethernet'
0.000000 172.16.0.172 -> 224.0.0.251 MDNS 103 Standard query 0x0000 SRV FIRSTNAME LASTNAME\342\200\231s XXXXXX._atc._tcp.local, "QU" question
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