Help!  iPhone no longer recognized after update/sync

Help. After months of delaying doing the update for my iPhone 3gs, I finally hooked it up tonight.  Well half way through the update an "unexpected error" occured.  Now my phone only has the 'connect to itunes' screen.  I've tried rebooting my pc and phone.  The phone will show the apple then the 'connect to tunes' screen.  Now iTunes won't recognize the iPhone and my computer doesn't want to see it as a device.  Help!  Not sure what else to try, why it happened or what to do.   TIA

Try kicking it out of recovery mode with RecBoot. If that does now work, read through section 3 in link below.
Basic troubleshooting steps  
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