Error on updating to iOS 5.

iPhone 3GS owner updating to iOS5 from iOS 4.1. When i tried to update my phone earlier today it told me i had to restore first, which i was expecting, when it had finished its little progress bar, it said "iPhone could not be restored, error code (-1)". I've tried several more times, same thing. I downloaded the 4.3.5 IPSW thinking that i could just Option + Click restore to that, no such luck, error code (21) this time. Since i tried restoring my iphone is in an endless loop of restart. I see the apple logo, the restore progress bar for split second, the white spinny wheel, repeat. Any ideas?

FWIW I have found that under ios5, my iPad will not even synch using the cable plugged into the monitor port; it has to be plugged into the computer tower before it is recognized in iTunes.
So get used to having your cable plugged into the computer... or synch wirelessly.
And thank you again to Apple_Forum_User for posting this fix originally!
-Tom in SoCal

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