Reinstalled computer. Can't sync music to iPhone 3G.

I recently reinstalled my 4 year old Macbook Pro to clean it out. Saved everything I wanted to an external hard drive. After everything was done and I downloaded all the needed updates I plugged in my iPhone 3G, but it didn't show up in Finder. It did show up in iTunes, but I can't add music individually.
I can't drag a song from my Music Library to my iPhone like I could before. If I can put music on the phone it shows my songs on the phone as grayed out and I can't re-arrange.
Any help?

You need to reauthorize iTunes. If it is, unathorize and reauthorize again. That should take care of it. The phone shouldn't show up in finder unless there are pics in the camera roll, and for music, you can set iTunes to manually manage music and you should be able to move individual songs after that.

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