Sync suddenly taking forever.

Not sure if my installing iphone developer software did this, but since I did, it is taking forever for my iphone to sync.
It is stuck on step 1 of 5 (Backing up).
Any thoughts?
Been trying to sync this iphone for almost 2 hours.

Ignoring the SDK stuff.
1. for now you can always click the X on the status bar of iTunes saying backing up and it will skip that step and move on.
2. There is a reported issue that has been repeated in here for older iOS's about the Camera roll and backing up taking a long time. Many have found when you save an image to the camera roll from the web or an email that sometimes (nobody isolated if it is size or file type etc) will cause the backup to hang. If you have any photos in your camera roll that were not taken with the camera (eg: you saved to it some other way) email them off to yourself then delete them from the camera roll and try again.
I believe this issue was fixed with the 4.0 updates.

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