Why is my iPhone 4S dead, not showing in iTunes, won't charge after upgrading to 5.1.1???????!!!!!!!??

After upgrading my iphone 4S to 5.1.1 I had a problem... woke up one morning and my phone was DEAD! It was completely non responsive, not showing up in iTunes, not charging from my Mophie, or A/C or Mac.
I wanted to post the fix that worked for me in case anyone else out there is having the same heart pulpitations I was this morning. In the online communities Parisilia had posted a fix to do a hard reset (Hold down the home button and power button simultaneously for several seconds, the phone will reboot and will then be recognized in iTunes and you can restore from backup). This worked for me - PHEW!! Off the ledge...
Once my phone rebooted it didn't actually need a restore because it hadn't 'reset' - everything was as it was the night before, although the battery had gone from 51% to 41% Personally I'm shocked that it would drain 10% in one night and who knows how long it was 'dead' for after I put it to bed at 11:45pm????!!
This is my second iPhone 4S since Oct 2011 - the first one had to be replaced because of something radically wrong with the battery capability. After several very frustrating months of trying various fixes Apple finally took the phone back thinking it musta been a dud. I've had this one for about 3 months and it's been much better battery-wise, but now the mysterious DOA event has me seriously worried that I have another dud. Looking thru the communities there seem to be many more people experiencing the same issue, so hopefully it's software and can be fixed (APPLE ARE YOU LISTENING??) rather than me being up the creek again.
Good luck to anyone else experiencing the same issue.

Try
1. Totally remove iTunes and QuickTime
see
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1926
2. then you will need to do a "deep clean" of registry
by this I mean a registry search for itunes and delete any and every key you find
*however if you do not know how to do this safely don't try it*
unfortunately the registry cleaners do not clean to this level
and itunes leaves considerable detritus in the registry which can screw up updates and or reinstalls
Apple needs a cleaner similar to Norton's effort which has similar problems. Their tool removes ALL evidence of a previous anti virus installation which is what the above solution achieves in iTunes

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