An unknown error occurred (1013), Any ideas?

I have the iphone 3g, it's 3 months old, and while trying to restore it my computer crashed, when I tried to restore it again it came up with the following message "An unknown error occurred (1013), the iphone could not be restored, then comes up with the option of trying to restore it again!
I have not jail broke this phone, it is mine out right and I have tried to restore it using a different machine and OS just case there was something wrong with the one I have, all this did not work.
From what I can can make out the Software version 2.2 and the size of the unit (eg. 16GB) is missing, but the serial number is still there on the menu. Can anyone help?

I googled the error message, lots of threads about jailbroken phones having this issue. This one was not. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1752200&tstart=0

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