Sold old iPhone, bought (used) new one, syncing issues

First, I'm using a PC. 
Before I sold the old iPhone I backed it up in iTunes.  Plugged the new one in, restored from the backup of my old phone, everything was perfect.  Now, I'm trying to sync new purchases and music onto the new phone, and iTunes is not recognizing it, saying I need to restore (from the old backup) or set it up as a new phone.  I noticed that the serial number associated with my iTunes account does not match the serial number on the new phone.  How do I remedy this!?!? 

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Any help out there?

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