Itunes wont pick up my Iphone 3Gs 16gb

I sat for a whole day yesterday scrubbing Itunes from my Pc playing about with device manager following online instructions and nothing really seems to work. I managed to get it connected to Itunes at one point but that was just out of the blue... I left it plugged in for a good ten minutes then it automatically just opened Itunes and started syncing... Now ever since it wont seem to do it again ? I really am beggining to get frustrated with this. The phone thats meant to be the best of the best...
The cable they sent me with the Iphone seemed to work at first then it kept saying Usb power surge exceeded or something everytime i plugged that specific cable in... Ive got an external HDD and I tried plugging that in and it worked fine... So im guessing the cable is faulty...But I had another cable lying around which was from a 4gb Ipod Nano I used to have...
That Ipod nano worked fine with my computer and itunes ect... so I dont understand why the phone is not...
When plugged it with the cable it makes the noise to acknowledge that that it has indeed been plugged in, then auto play comes up but it says the phone is a camera device... should this be the case ?
If anyone can help please do !! Ive deleted Itunes about ten times and wiped everything to do with itunes, quicktime and so on... then restarted, downloaded the latest blah blah....
Im unsure of the OS but I know its unlocked etc... I got this second hand, but the previous owner had no problems connecting to itunes etc...
Any help is appreciated ! Thank you...
Dean... I wont be around untill tonight so fire your solutions away and il try when I get back..

iTunes has no hands, therefore it cannot pick anything up. 
If you mean the device is not detected by iTunes, try the following: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538

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