HT201210 (iPad 2) Upgrading from 4.3.5 to 5.x.x

Hey all
Need some help every time I try to updrade on my iPad 2 GSM I get an error that have no error code only:
"This device isn't eligible for the requested build"
I have tried this so far:
Normal upgrade with the following steps:
new user on Mac OS X 10.6.8
new user on Windows XP
new user on Windows 7
Restore on all platforms
Force-restore on all platforms
DFU mode on all platforms
All the steps about with out WIFI and in airplain mode
Erased all content and settings and making it a new iPad and done all steps ones again.
Kind of have no idea what to try next.... Anyone have any ideas ?
And the iPad is ofcause mine and not jailbroken or anything like that. And this iPad is not a development version and there have never been beta software on it...
Please let me know if anyone have a fix or an idea what I can try next..
Hmmmmmmmmm when trying to find my software version it's not there...... what the.... no IOS 4.3.5, hmmm someone forgot to tell my iPad that....

OK fixed.
I had to install a new box with Windows 7 on it so installed a new itunes on it and tried again. It seemed to do the trick. Wierd though that before that I tried on a brand new Macbook Pro with a fresh install on it and that did't work.
So to others that have this problem I guess buying a new PC or reinstalling Windows 7 will do the trick (not really a solution though).

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Nearly 99% of all businesses and nearly 95% of everyone use Windows, Steve Jobs declared "The desktop wars are over, Microsoft won" a long time ago.
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Apple has already discontinued the Xserver, the Xraid, the MacBooks and the 17" Macbook Pro.
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