Help, iPhone 3GS stuck in recovery

Whenever I connect to iTunes I get the recovery mode message, so am having to restore the phone. After 10 minutes or so of restoring, I get a message saying "The iPhone cannot be restored, an unknown error occured(1603 or 1604). One thing that occured to me is I am constantly getting the "Power surge on hub port" message whenever I startup the laptop, could this be the problem? I have an appointment to exchange the phone at the nearest apple store which is 20 miles away, but am worried it may not be the phone but my laptop.
Any help would be appreciated.

1604 and 1603 are actually not very specific. they kinda go under the category of "everything else"
notice how the repair optionsa re very general.
when i had battery issues with my phone (the battery was out of place therefore it would not turn on unless it was plugged in, and i told me to restore with itunes) it gave me error message 1604 because my iphone wouldnt reboot during the restore process and itunes didnt know why, so it put it under 1604. i ended up having to remove and then putting the battery back in manually after genius bar told me they couldnt fix it.
No hate towards apple though, love their products. hopefully all goes well.

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