This is for everyone who has a problem with iTunes and their iPhone on Windows XP, SP3. It may help y’all, it may not.

Anyways,  it’s all about my stoopid computer, iTunes and iPhone. Friday arvo go to open iTunes, error error error! Reinstall, error error error! Ok, uninstall, re-install, error error error! Really busy, have to go to work…

Yesterday, again, the same error. Bring on Google. Turns out that no forum out there has any help. My error was iTunes having a sook over something called ntdll.dll. Okay, download new ntdll.dll, error error error! Can’t save over existing copy. Grrr. Downgrade iTunes from 9 to 8.2? Ok, uninstall iTunes, Quicktime and the three other programs, reboot, install 8.2. Works sweet, except that the playlist doesn’t exist, which is no biggie. Install 9 over it? Hmmm, okay. Install complete, iTunes now loads sweet, still minus playlist. Hook up phone as I’ve a stack of apps to upgrade. No connection. Just three dull tones coming from Windows XP saying pretty much “Your phone ain’t connecting to me today. Suffer in yer jocks.”

Try a different USB port, same deal. Whack other USB devices, two tones, they are connecting sweet. Could my phone be dead?

Today, go to work, hook iPhone to work computer, two tones. It’s working sweet. Come home, same three error tones. GRRRRRR! Go looking for more forums, check the USB part in Windows Device Manager. Mine doesn’t say Apple Mobile Device or anything. Look thru driver update details, found the one that searches for Apple or something in the Common Files directory. Uninstall driver. Okay, keyboard and mouse don’t work. Just great. Shutdown computer by pulling the plug.

Turn on computer, keyboard/mouse now working, connect iPhone, three error tones. Again! Go to Device Manager, hello! Says Apple Mobile Device with a triangle on it. Hmmm. Hit the forums again, nothing but reinstalling some driver you could only get until iTunes 7 or something. Uninstall iTunes, Quicktime and friends, two beeps. iPhone now connects! YESSSSSSSSSSS!

Ok, shut down computer, turn ‘er back on, install iTunes, start iTunes, still no playlist, but who cares. Connect iPhone, IT WORKS! Woooooo! What a hassle. Now I think when I re-sync, it’ll zap everything, then reinstall all these old apps I don’t want.