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> Then iTunes starts, sits and spins for a while, the phone appears in the menu, iTunes does it's verification thing, then up pops a message:
> "This iPhone is already activated. You may disconnect this iPhone now"
>
> I click OK, and the phone dismounts. No other option seems to be available.
>
> I've done the usual "reset/reboot" routine with both the computer (iMac late 2009 with whatever the latest version of Snow Leopard is) and the iphone. And yes, I am using the current update of itunes from a week ago. I deleted iTunes while I was reset and rebooting everything else, then reinstalled it. Same thing.
>
> More strangeness occurrs when the iPod touch is plugged in. I can again import things from iphoto, but iTunes comes up with this message, much more odd than the iPhone message above:
>
> "This copy of itunes does not support iPod, iPhone or iPad synching"
>
> Same wacky error message with my iPod mini, 3rd, 4th and 5th generation "classic" models.
> So I'm like - LOLWUT??? Isn't that the *purpose* of iTunes?????

My guess is that some of itunes *support* files have gotten munged, as opposed to iTunes itself.

Try creating a new user on the machine - "test* - start iTunes from there, and connect the iPhone - it may ask you if you want to set it up as a new iPhone, which you presumably do NOT - but you'll see if it works.

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