Bought iPhone 3G from friend -- WON'T SYNC WITH WINDOWS 7!!

PLEASE HELP! I have been having multiple problems. I recently purchased a 3G from a friend. I contacted AT&T and notified them of the sale. My phone is working find once I contacted them.
I have a new laptop (see specs below) and installed a new hard drive from Dell on it today. I reinstalled the latest version of iTunes (10.0.1.22). Windows 7 installed all of the drivers for the iPhone from Apple fine and recognizes the hardware.
I attempted to restore the iPhone to it's original settings with success and have the latest iPhone update installed (Version 4.1)
After restoring the iPhone I get two error messages. The first is a message that says that "the iPhone (USER NAME) cannot be synced because of an internal device error" and a second that says that "a folder was specified instead of a file." This was after trying multiple times. Prior to these messages I received error code 1621 and I can't find anything about that online. I have exhausted all my resources at this point.
I have attempted to install it by running as an administrator but to no avail. Any conversation on this matter would be helpful. I heard that I may need a new SIM card that is designed to be used specifically with the iPhone. Could this be my problem...my "internal device error" so to speak??

So, I just picked up the new SIM card from AT&T and I am currently restoring the phone with iTunes. I'm going to take you through my motions....
1.) When restore was complete the iPhone performed a self-restart (which is normal). Remember...using new hard drive, new SIM, USED iPhone (which person originally synced to a Mac).
2.) Selected to set-up as a new iPhone (which is what it will be for me). A back-up does exist, but I don't see how that is possible as I have never had a successful sync on this computer and prior to purchasing this iPhone from a friend I have never plugged up any iPhone to this computer at all (with the old hard drive or the new)! The screen on the iPhone currently shows the charge bar (battery) which is full for the most part.
3.) Prior to syncing as a new iPhone, I deselected all import contact, notes, etc. All selections say NONE. Also, I deslected the option to automatically import all applications.
4.) A bar comes up that simply states "Syncing IPhone" (Whatever happened to the old hourglass? At least you knew something was happening)! So far this is how the process has gone every time. The errors appear at the next step...BTW the iPhone screen does not say "Sync in Progress" which *****...probably means something is trash!!!
5.) It seems to be taking a really long time and I'm starting to get ******...somebody is lying to me...either Apple, Microsoft or Dell.
6.) Here's my wonderful error message: "The iPhone Mia @@$*&$ cannot be synced. An internal device error occurred. Now the iPhone screen says "sync in progress" and the display on iTunes (with error window still up) reads Syncing Mia &^*&&% and "starting Sync" just below that with the normal iTunes progress bar doing it's thing!!
7.) When I close the error window another one is behind it that reads "The iPhone Mia (^(&$%^ cannot be synced. The required file could not be found." Go figure. The iPhone still reads "Sync in Progress" but iTunes shows nothing happening. The capacity (on the lower portion of iTunes) reads exactly half of 4GB is available, but that's all screwy because it's capacity is 14.5 GB or something like that...
8.) After closing the second error window it begins backing up the iPhone. The iPhone itself goes back to the battery level (charging screen). After a while iTunes reads that iPhone sync is complete.
9.) Now my iPhone has been restored and there is no way to sync any data, music, contacts or anything to it. *****!!!!
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