ITunes won't recognise iphone 3Gs since upgrading to Leopard

I have just upgraded from Tiger to Leopard (all updates are done) and now neither my or my wife's iPhone 3Gs are being recognized by iTunes. I have run disc utilities and restated everything. Sometimes I wish I left things alone! Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers. Steve

Do you have the latest version of iTunes? A good place to post is either the iTunes forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=153
or the iPhone forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=201

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If i go onto My Computer the actual PC itself picks it up but itunes won't.
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ALL the other diagnostic tests i did showed all GREEN just these two are RED,which i am now?
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Greetings,
Make sure to run the Apple Update routine on the PeeCee - the PeeCee can be such a royal pain, and even though you aren't required to reboot, I would, as Winblows doesn't pick up on updates as it should.
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Thanks for your reply. That was what the solution I found on that link I posted, except it said to include the 'Bonjour' too. I've uninstalled everything, downloaded the latest iTunes, reinstalled and restarted the computer twice, but it still won't recognise the iPad. I've also rebooted the iPad each time.
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Greetings,
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