My Ipad/Iphone4 won't back up

Can someone please help me? Everytime I try to back up my phone it gives me an error and says it cant back up I need help because I want to e able to restore my phone. Oh and I have the latest iTunes and iOS software.

That weird thing comes up every time I use the 'and' symbol on my pad
The hard drive has loads of room and not 5mins before, I'd backed up my iPod....
The same thing happened last week when trying to sync... I realised that time that I couldn't manually start up iTunes, start my music and then sync... I had to shut iTunes down, plug in my iPod/pad and let it start up to sync it. This week I plugged in the iPod and it synced, shut down iTunes plugged in iPad, tried to sync and failed. It's frustrating as I've had no problems since I bought it about 3months ago, until now.
I also get a warning box come up telling me the following
'The iTunes library file cannot be saved. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation.'
This has come up every time I double click my iTunes icon to do syncing, ever since we've updated the iTunes. Why?

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