Music not appearing on iPhone 4!

Hey guys,
So after syncing some new music (manually managed) onto my iPhone from my MBP, my iPhone completely lost of the its music. The songs (including the ones I just synced) appear just fine in the iPhone tab on iTunes, yet in the iPod app and in the Settings->General->About section the iPhone's telling me there's nothing there. I updated the iPhone to 4.0.2 but that didn't seem to do the trick. Any help?
TL;DR: My iPhone music is showing up in iTunes but not on the phone.

This is an ongoing issue for at least a year now I think. Something somewhere is causing the internal database to get corrupt on the device itself and you have to force a rebuild. Sometimes I go for a couple of weeks without a problem and sometimes it's everytime I synch for several days running.
What I do to correct it.
After I do my initial daily backup and synch, while the phone is still docked, I activate the iPod App on the phone. If it shows my contend (music/books/podcasts/etc), I undock and go about my day.
If it shows an "empty" device, I manually either add a song to the phone from my library, or go into the iphone music tab in itune and delete a song from the device. I have one specfic song I do for this only for simplicity. If it's noton the device, I add it, if it is, I delete it.
After the add or delete action and the synch activity has stopped, I relaunch the iPod application and it will say something along the lines of rebulding my library, this may take a few minutes.
After it's finished, all my content is once more displayed. I do all of this while still docked only to save time.
Hope this helps

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