IOS4 seems completely to have wiped out my 3G iPod Touch.

I live in China and so going to a Genius Bar or sending my things off to Apple aren't really an option, or at least it'd be really really difficult. I upgraded to iOS 4 (I assume, not paying a whole lot of attention- iTunes just asked me if I wanted to upgrade the software and I assume that's what happened.)
Since then it's come up with this screen asking me to connect the iPod to iTunes, but when I do so it tries to connect to the iTunes store and isn't able to. In the meantime the only option I have is to eject the iPod- the computer recognizes it, but provides me no other choices. Again, China problems, and I'm not sure if it's the connection or the iPod that's to blame here. In the meantime I have no music, no applications, nothing, and seemingly no recourse through iTunes to fixing this.
What I'd like to try doing at this point is a manual restore. Is there a way to wipe the iPod clean without plugging it into the computer and having to go through the iTunes Store? I can back it up from the computer and try that, if it is possible. If worst comes to worst I'm headed to Rome in a few days, blissfully out from behind the Great Firewall and within reach of an Apple Store, but I'd like not to have to resort to that. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Ryan, I'm not sure if this is an isolated incident. I'm half way through an upgrade to iOS4 and it's frozen in recovery mode. I can't go back to 3.1.3 that worked beautifully and I can't go forward as my computer now doesn't recognise my iTouch at all when I connect. I've tried to connect to 2 other computers with iTunes and it now says my iTouch isn't eligible and just asks if iTunes can report the error to Apple!
If anyone else has any ideas/fixes please let me know - I've tried everything i can think of.
Thanks

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