IOS 5.1: Stuck at "Verifying Updated iPhone Software"

Help would be greatly appreciated:
I'm 'upgrading' to iOS 5.1, and the download seems to have gone fine. But iTunes has been stuck on "Verifying Updated iPhone Software" for about 4 hours. How do I fix this?
iTunes 10.6.0.40
iPhone 4
Windows Vista (yeah, I know...)

HEY APPLE
A reply to this sure would be appreciated!
I have the exact same issue on my iPhone 4S and I am now restoring, hopefully successfully and without losing everything.  I sure hope iCloud actually works for all of my apps!!!

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