Do NOT Upgrade iPhone 3gs to ios5 - bricked - unable to restore

Hello,
As many people have found out the hard way there is a SERIOUS BUG with iTunes 10.5 and iPhone 3gs.
1) If you update to iTunes 10.5 your iPhone 3gs 4.3.3 will NOT sync music. In fact it removes all access to the music files on the iPhone and will not let you resync them.
2) You have a 50 / 50 chance that update to ios5 WILL brick the iphone and will NOT restore.
This is now a documented fact across many tech sites and this support forum.
THE IOS5 Update will cause your phone to stop working.  Good luck if you still want to try.

Oh how I love maccies sense of sarcasm.
No other phone wipes itself out upon update again and again.
This happen to me twice before (3 to 4 anf 4.1 to 4.3)
Yet it reamains to see
If Immortality unveil
        A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
       As these that twice befell.
Apple control is all we know of heaven,
       And all we need of ****.

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