Original iPhone syncing problem

My original iPhone is not syncing properly. When I connect to my iMac to sync, iPhoto starts up in the normal way, but iTunes does not. When I start up iTunes manually, my iPhone does not show up as a connected devise.
What can I do. I have reset all settings on the iPhone. I have deleted all apps downloaded to the iPhone. I have restarted iPhone and iMac several times.
Help!

I solved the problem for now by reinstalling iTunes.

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This is starting to make a hole in my head!
I have one album that doesn't want to sync with my iPhone. I tried repairing the database - no joy. Then I tried rebuilding the database - even less joy (since it deleted all the images from 2 of my albums and I had to replace those.)
Every time I would try to sync to the iPhone, I would get a -50 error. Meanwhile, syncing the same album to AppleTV worked fine.
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3) Why is this only an issue for photos in that 1 album?
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