Pairing Imac G5 OS10.4.11 with IPhone 3Gs

My IMac G5 will not "discover" my new Iphone; both are set to "discoverable". Can anyone offer some ideas on how to solve this problem?

Well .. it is and it isn't. What trigger all this was the iPod and Apple's new program of issueing a new release of OS10.5 as a work around for the genesis of the matter. I posted here because "it started here" in hopes that someone with a similar problem would have some info.

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Boot into Recovery mode. The OS X Utilities screen will appear.
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res
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Load this web page in Safari.
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sudo dscl . -delete users/fubar HomeDirectory
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