Upgraded to latest 10.8.2, iTune 10.7 and IO6 and iTunes will not backup because session could not be started with my iPad3 and iPhone 4

Since the upgrade, I have been hounded by error messages that my iPad and iPhone cannot be backed up to iTunes because a session could not be started, then a following error message that iTunes could not sync inforimation to iPad/iPhone because a connection could not be established.
Now I have gone throught various discussions and have done - rebooted both Mac computer and iPad/iPhone; changed USB cables/ports; deleted iPod cache; reset settings to both iPad/iPhone; tried syncing over wifi; and removed contents of lockdown folder. And after all this, the error messages just keep rebounding back.
So apart from doing a system and/or iTune re-install, is there any assistance from Apple about this?
This is very un-Apple and reading the Windows section of this discussion, people are not happy. Oh, I'm not happy too...

I wonder if the disk being referred to is actually your iPod which is not plugged in. Maybe something has stuck thinking the iPod should be there.
Try completely removing all the iTunes related programs according to this method.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
Restart you PC and see if startup improves.
If it doesn't improve you need to consider the possibility that there is something else going on.
If The problem goes away, hopefully a fresh install will be OK.

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Message was edited by: mtnmedic

FIXED IT!
Before I got to my fix, here are the things I tried, none of which seemed to resolve the issue or improve the situation:
*Checked cables and connections
*Restarted iTunes
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*Checked to make sure PC date/time/time zone were all accurate
*Checked to make sure my security software (MS Security Essentials and Windows FIrewall) were up-to-date and no conflicts
*Made sure I had proper permission for the iPad backup folders. To ensure that, I selected the folders and clicked on "Take Ownership" in the context menu.
*I made sure that my user account is an Administrator account on this PC
*I logged out of my primary user account and logged in as the Computer Administrator (basically, a different user acccount that is an Administrator) and tried to do the backup to iTunes from there.
Failing with all of those things, many of which are suggested from the Apple knowledge base, I was just about to backup my iPad onto another machine, then transfer the backup to this PC and restore the iPad from here using that file, maybe even removing and re-installing iTunes, etc. Everything so far short of wiping the iPad and starting over from scratch, which I feared might end up happening.
Then, a lightbulb went off in my head. Why not do a reset on the iPad itself? Not the usual soft reset but the kind of reset that restores function to an iDevice when it isn't responding: press and hold both the Power and Home buttons at the same time and hold them until the device restarts, ignoring the "slide to turn off" prompt. After it finished booting up, I connected it with my PC, which brought up iTunes automatically, then...lo and behold, instead of seeing the rapid synch then error, it went right into backup. Took about fifteen minutes but it finished the backup without a hitch and synched the iPad.
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