WiFi Store sync problems iPhone to Mac

Until now I've never had a single problem with iPhone. I've recently upgraded to iTunes 7.5 and iPhone 1.1.2, and haven't had any problems until I tried to use the WiFi Store. I haven't seen any similar discussions on these boards.
I was able to buy an album and a few random songs without a problem, but they won't sync from the iPhone to the Mac. iTunes asks if I want to transfer the purchased items, I say yes, and I get the following errors:
"The iPhone "Tim's iPhone" cannot be synced. The disk could not be read from or written to."
"The iPhone "Tim's iPhone" cannot be synced. The required disk cannot be found."
"The iPhone "Tim's iPhone" cannot be synced. The device timed out."
"Attempting to copy to the disk "My Stuff" failed. The device timed out."
"The iTunes Library file cannot be saved. An unknown error occurred (-50)."
Sometimes one or two tracks successfully transfer from iPhone to Mac. Sometimes I get all of the above errors, sometimes only a couple. Different order each time. Every time, I have to unplug and reconnect iPhone. When I get the last error above, I have to shut down iTunes and restart it. I've never had any sync problems before, and currently the contacts and calendars work just fine.
The messages are self-explanatory but what I can't figure out is not what, but WHY. I like how it says my local hard drive timed out but all other apps (including iTunes) can read from and write to it. Nevertheless I ran diagnostics on it without any problems. I'm using the same cable and USB port I've been using for months, and same hard drive, OS and other software setup.
Soooo, after over forty attempts I have most of my music transferred over (again, only about 20 tracks), still trying. If it keeps this up I'll never use the WiFi store. I think a hard reset and/or restore is needed but I don't want to lose the purchased music that hasn't yet synced.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Tim

I had the same problem.
Sync the iPhone with a different PC, and then re sync it on your main machine.
it will say something about erase and re-sync.
that should do it,

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