New iphone says "sync complete" but doesn't download any music?

I have had iTunes and used it without incident with my iPod. Just bought an iphone today but when I went to sync with iTunes for the first time it prompted me to updated to latest version which I did. For some reason it seems to sync to my iphone, says "sync complete", but doesn't download anything from my library. Iphone still says "no content". First day home with iphone. Not real happy about it.
Help please?

Make sure you have checked "Sync Music in the music pane when connected to iTunes.
Look at pages 13-15 in the User Guide available here: http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf

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