MacBook won't recognize connected iPhone 3G

Hello, I have a problem with my iPhone 3G. It suddenly stopped being recognized by my Mac. I have tried the following:
1) reinstall iTunes completely along with Applemobiledevice
2) resetting and shutting down the Macbook and the iPhone
3) connecting the iPhone to Windows in VMWare
It doesn't even show up in the System profiler which means that the problem is probably at the USB level. But the problem is that my flashdisc works in both USB ports. The iPhone works in my friend's Windows PC. The Mac and iPhone is fully charged. I have tried also DiskAid but it doesn't recognize the iPhone neither.
Any suggestions what might be the problem ?

Hi!
I just got the same problem this morning. When I connect my iPhone 3G to my MBP (Mid-June 2007) then neither of them appears to recognize the connection. Might there be a connection with the Java Update that I installed yesterday? This is the first time that I tried to connect the iPhone 3G after that update and the connection failed. Everything worked flawlessly before.
Hope that anyone has a solution for that!

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