3GS Bricks Itself After 4.2 Update

Have a 3GS, previously running iOS 4.1. Upgraded to 4.2 today.
Upgrade appeared to work fine. Was playing with the phone and its potential new features (what there are of them) and it just shut itself off. And it won't turn back on.
Anyone else having this problem? Anyone have a solution (short of attempting to restore from backup and/or just get that iPhone 4 I've been meaning to buy)?
Thanks.
-Craig.

roscop wrote:
I also just made the 4.2 update on a 3GS and now having NO funtionality with any of my hard buttons (volume up/down, mute switch, and top sleep button).
Did a full restore and still no resolution. Called apple and they have no other complaints.
It must be the update! 3 sets of buttons all of a sudden don't work after the update.
Apple needs to allow a version roll back option.
It is not the version you updated to; it is the update process that caused the problem. A rollback wouldn't help because it would still corrupt the previous version during the update.
Your symptoms are not ones I have seen before. Try a DFU restore on a different computer, or if you use the same computer use a USB port directly on the computer, disconnect all non-essential USB devices, disable your antivirus.
See: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808

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