Message says to transfer purchased items to iTunes, but I've synched!

I just clicked the Update button for 3.2.2 and I got the strange message--
"There are purchased items on your iPad that have not been transfered to your iTunes library."
I do not understand. I had just synched it. I synched a second time, no change! Same message. Which includes
"You should transfer these items to iTunes."
I thought that's what synching was for! Would appreciate any suggestions on this.
If this helps, I did notice that Books on the iPad include several that are not on the iTunes book tab. They were freebies downloaded from Google Books. Several are PDFs, IIRC.

Also, IIRC, several of them are from Project Gutenberg.
Well, what do you know? First, I discovered that iTunes now has a Home Sharing feature, which I am presuming established a network between our iPad and the MBP. That didn't work.
But then I discovered under File, the commend "Transfer purchases from iPad [name of iPad]".
That fixed the problem!
I am still baffled, though. Synching does not transfer all purchased items from the iPad! I always thought it did. Sync Books says it will remove all music, songs, TV shows, etc. from iPad, so that's not an option. And the Home Sharing seems to be one way--only to the iPad.
I hope someone can enlighten me about this. I'll bet I've missed some settings somewhere that could fix each of these!
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