Apple TV 2 Will Not Boot, Flashing LED

Hello everyone,
I was just in the middle of watching a movie and the Apple TV went back out to the main menu, and lost connection with iTunes, I restarted my Apple Tv, and now it displays the iTunes logo with a USB cable on my TV, and the LED on my Apple TV keeps flashing white. I'm guessing my Apple TV want's me to plug it in to my iTunes. I have never needed to plug it in to iTunes before, why now, I have the latest updates.
It's an Apple TV 2 Model: A1378
What's going on?

ah crap, my wife is super mad now lol, I have to go buy another cable, I need a mini USB cable or what ever they are called to plug in to the back of this. That also means I have to rerent the movie we rented tonight *sigh*
Thanks for the reply Eric :O)

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