Rom UK to South IPhone 3GS Synching Problems - HELP PLEASE

Hey, I need help.
Every time I connect my iphone to my HP laptop, it says it can't read the iphone and wants to restore the software.
I go through this route, and it sometimes allows me to synch my contacts, but I have no joy with apps or music. This iPhone has worked perfectly with this PC previously.
I am now running the latest iTunes software and also iOS4 on my iPhone and still no success.
I get a message saying that an iPhone has previously been synched with this PC, which is true, as it is my one and only iPhone.
As an aside, but may be related, I recently moved from UK to South Africa, and had my iPhone unlocked by o2 in the UK and now work from a Vodacom sim card.
I've taken my iPhone and laptop into a local Apple store, and whilst it appeared to work in the shop, as these things always do, when I got home, reconnected, I got the same problem and has to restore my iPhone completely.
Can anyone possibly help.
I feel I need to get my iTunes to recognise that this is the iPhone thats been synched with it in the past.
Other random error messages I get are things like, "cannot sync as item is a folder rather than a file"
HELP

Welcome to the club. This is a problem that has surfaced with OS 3.0.1 and continues into 3.1. All 3rd party apps crash at startup on iPhone 3g and 3gs. OS 3.0 didn't behave this way and Apple apparently has no comment to make on the matter.

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