Trying to synch music from iTunes to Apple iPhone4 to replace old items with new

When I try to synch selected music albums only and request that these replace previously synched albums on my iPhone4 (16GB), the synch part completes and still leaves all old items on the phone. How do I get rid of the old music to create enough space on my phone for new selected items of music.This only seems to have become a problem after one of the recent iOS upgrades.

Found the solution to my problem. First to colingoree, yes, the music does play from the computer. The problem was with the phone itself, not the ITunes software or computer operating system. After all failed attempts of the suggestions made by many, and the hours trying to solve and find a solution, in desperation I performed a hard reset within the phone settings > general > reset > erase all content and settings, then hard rebooted the phone pressing the home key and top button for about 3 seconds. This completly reset the phone, and yes! now the sync process works with ITunes, all music selected is downloaded to the phone, and WORKS!
This was a drastic measure to do a complete reset, but it was my only solution. When I purchased the phone, something must of happened when the dealer was puting in my contacts and such from the ICloud. Hope this helps to many out there, and yes thank you for the many suggestions.

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2 reset my external WD my book live to re-sync with the router
3 turned off the option allowing my mac book pro to go to sleep and turn the internal HDD to sleep when possible in the power saving menu.
4 shouted at it and made degrading remarks about the efficiency of apple products compared to the floor less performance (although less glamourous look) of my WD tv live box which works without hick up btw. Although cannot play iTunes downloaded files...who to blame.
And it seemed to work. For now I am happier than I was but still not convinced it will serve me as well as I would like but here's to the here and now...watch this space.

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