Failed Update - Stuck in Recovery Mode

An unmodified iPhone. Tried to update to v2.0 and get a failed message; iPhone could not be restored. I get one of 4 error messages 2001, 2003 2005 and (6). I'm using the latest version of iTunes and have rebooted my Mac several times. Plugged and unplugged the iPhone, deleted the plist files for the restore software ending in "ipsw". The upper back of the phone is quite warm, like it gets after making a long call. The display shows a connector pointing to iTunes. I can shut it off by holding the top button down and I can turn it on. When turned on I get to the apple logo only. The broken connection display occurs when the iTunes connection is established. Any ideas?

Read some of the other posts from today. Everyone is having the same problem. what it amounts to is Apple's server is overloaded with too many people trying to download 2.0. I don't understand why this was not anticipated by Apple before making the embedded iphone customers to wait for the software until they launched the new phones.
A lot of this could have been avoided by activating the 2.0 sofrware a week ago and e-mailing iphone users so they could have upgraded before today. Their main focus is on sales and unfortunately their new customers are also stuck with unusable toys as well. I'm sure they are not impressed.
The othe strings say to click on any other functions, such as MUSIC, and back to the phone to get it to try to access the store. Many folks have had success with that, but I have been doing that for 2 hours with no success. They probably can see I'm on a PC and not a MAC so I go to the bottom of the queue.LOL GOOD LUCK ALL!

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