Why are my apps downloading again on my iPad

Today I purchased 4 new apps for my iPad. I didin't do anythign differently but this time when I synced my iPad the apps just read 'waiting' beneath the icon and now I have to redownload them over wifi. This is the same for all 4 of them. What is going on, I never had to do this before. Once they were downloaded into iTunes they synced with the iPad and they were ready to run.

That's very curious as the appeared to take a long time to download each. They also reported being fully downoladed in the download window in iTunes. It's certainly never happened before that they would synchronise without being fully downloaded.

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