Unable to authorize Apps post restore of iPhone 3g (software version 2.2.1)

A little story...!
I bought a new iPhone 3g last week. I love playing with hardware ans software so I downloaded the SDK, and installed it.
I spent a happy evening writing a silly little app, which worked on the simulator. I wanted to test it for real, so connected my iPhone.
XCode asked if I wanted to use it for development, I said yes (all going well so far)
I tried to deploy to it, but it failed with an application authentication issue (totally separate). As it was late in the evening, I just shrugged and disconnected my iPhone.
This morning I tried to use an application I had downloaded from the app store. It started then crashed. hmmm.
I read a bunch of stuff on the net, and decided to restore the iPhone back to basic, then re-install everything.
All was going well until it tried to restore the applications, then I received 'you are not authorized' messages for every app.
More net reading. I finally found the answer which was a blend of two posts on this forum - hence this post which may help others.
First the error:
You try to restore your iPhone but it fails with a message 'you are not authorized' to install the app.
Now the solution
1) Disconnect the iPhone
2) In iTunes -> Store -> authorize computer
3) Put in your name and password (even if this is all working already)
4) It tells you that the computer is already authorized.
5) Reconnect the iPhone and the apps will now synchronize.
I don't know why this works, but it does give me some more ideas about how apple authenticates things. Very much 'call the mother ship' if anything strange happens.
Ho-hum - fixed now.
I hope this helps anyone with the same problems...

This has been a week from heck. Two computer died, cause unknown, then I could not re-install my apps.
I tried your advice. At this moment you are a god.
Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jim

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