Macbook & iTunes Will Not See, Sync or Charge iPhones

After months of no real problems, my Macbook (OS X 10.4.11) and iTunes (9.03(15)) refuse to recognize my iPhone or my wife's iPhone. No sync, no charge, nothing in the Finder window. One time it did recognize my iPhone but then gave an error message that iTunes could not write to my iPhone, and told me to restore my iPhone to its factory settings.
My Macbook and iTunes recognize other iPods just fine. Why not my iPhones?
Other computers recognize the iPhones just fine, so it doesn't seem there is a problem with my iPhones. As a result, I don't want to restore the iPhones to the factory settings and go thru the awful experience that was setting up my email accounts and other information the first time.
I have tried:
Swapping USB cables and ports
Disconnecting and reconnecting the iPhones
Quitting and restarting iTunes
Restarting the Macbook
Restarting the iPhones
This first happened yesterday, I restarted the Macbook and then my iPhone synced and charged OK. But now today the problem has recurred, and none of the above have been successful.
Help!!!!!

Thanks for the suggestion to reinstall iTunes without uninstalling the existing version. That seems to have worked.
I do wonder about your snarky comment about my not being very anxious to solve the problem. I spent several hours trying to fix this and other errors encountered that day, which started with what should have been a simple enough process of moving an iTunes library from one computer to another.
I had written that based on the facts, I did not think that the problem could be with the iPhones and therefore didn't want to restore the iPhones to factory settings and go thru the pain of setting up email accounts all over again.
The fact that you suggested an alternative, and the fact that the alternative worked, proves the point that it was both logical and correct to continue looking for an alternative other than messing around with the iPhones. So I'm not sure why that comment was made.
Anyway, thanks again for the suggested remedy.

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