Syncing itunes music library to iphone 4s

I have recently upgraded from an iphone 3gs to an Iphone 4s. I have successfully transferred all my apps, data etc to the new phone but my itunes music library will not sync. The songs are showing in my music, but 90% of them are greyed out and some tracks are duplicated!. I have tried removing itunes from my pc (I have windows xp by the way!) and re-installing it. this has not worked. I have tried 'downloads' from itunes from my phone and this has frozen on the first track saying download error. I have phoned Apple support where i spent over 2 hours (on 2 occassions) trying to sort the issue out and it still doesn't work. Please help I am getting very frustrated and don't know what to do next, surely its not meant to be this difficult to listen to a song!!! Thankyou

If you check the manually manage music box, tehn you could drag and drop.
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Here's how I synced iPo=hone 6 (updated to OSX 8.3) with iTunes (Version 1.1.2.27)
1.     Turned on iTunes match on the computer (iMac) where my music library was located.
2.     Turned on iTunes match on iPhone 6 (Settings>Music>iTunes Match).
3.     Hard boot iPhone.
4.     Restarted iPhone.
5.     Disconnected iPhone to computer.
6.     Closed iTunes on computer.
7.     Restarted computer.
8.     Connected iPhone to computer then restarted iPhone.
9.     Restarted iTunes.
10.   Clicked on iPhone icon in iTunes.
11.   In iPhone SUMMARY menu, selected BACKUP option button THIS COMPUTER.
12.   Selected BACK UP NOW.
13.   Following backup, in OPTIONS section, checked box SYNC ONLY CHECKED SONGS AND VIDEOS.
14.   Clicked APPLY.
15.   Clicked SYNC.
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Here's how I synced iPo=hone 6 (updated to OSX 8.3) with iTunes (Version 1.1.2.27)
1.     Turned on iTunes match on the computer (iMac) where my music library was located.
2.     Turned on iTunes match on iPhone 6 (Settings>Music>iTunes Match).
3.     Hard boot iPhone.
4.     Restarted iPhone.
5.     Disconnected iPhone to computer.
6.     Closed iTunes on computer.
7.     Restarted computer.
8.     Connected iPhone to computer then restarted iPhone.
9.     Restarted iTunes.
10.   Clicked on iPhone icon in iTunes.
11.   In iPhone SUMMARY menu, selected BACKUP option button THIS COMPUTER.
12.   Selected BACK UP NOW.
13.   Following backup, in OPTIONS section, checked box SYNC ONLY CHECKED SONGS AND VIDEOS.
14.   Clicked APPLY.
15.   Clicked SYNC.
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Good luck.

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When working with an iPhone earlier builds of iTunes would remove any file not physically present in the local library, even if there was an entry for it, making manual management practically redundant on the iPhone. This behaviour has been changed but it will still only permit manual management with a library that has the correct internal ID. If you don't want to sync your library between machines on a regular basis just copy the iTunes Library.itl file from the current "home" machine to any other you want to use, then clean out the library entires and import the local content you have on that box.
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With your iPhone connected and without syncing, at the iTunes menu bar go to File and select Transfer Purchases From - the name of your iPhone.
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If your iTunes content that was not purchased from the iTunes Store was imported into your iTunes library from music CDs, dust them off and start importing them back into your iTunes library.
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