IOS 5 failed to install and iPhone 4 now stuck in recovery mode

I went to update my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 last night against my better judgment. It backed up etc. fine but when it went to install iOS 5 I got a pop up message from Windows (I'm  on Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit) saying that the drivers for Apple Mobile Device (Recovery Mode) couldn't be found. I clicked the option to locate and install them automatically, that didn't work. I did it manually and selected the drivers but that didn't work either. Any tips? At the moment basically my phone is stuck on the screen with the iTunes logo and then the USB cable underneath it with an arrow pointing up, no words on the screen other than iTunes.

Thanks for the replies, done all of that like a million times I'll just pout until the Genius fixes it

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