IPAD 2 is wiped and in endless restore loop with 5.1

I downloaded and installed iOS5.1 about 7 hours ago after being prompted on both my iPad2 and iPhone4S via WIFI. No problem with the iPhone,works great. However, when the iPad rebooted it told me I needed to restore the device, which I attempted to do so over a dozen times on two differnet PC's (office and home) and each time I get an error "The iPad "iPad" could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1)." I have checked many forunm and sites for help. I tried everything that Apple and other posts suggested but no luck at all in the endless restore loop.
I am really shocked that Apple would release this IOS 5.1 disaster out with any real help or guidance. The worse part is the erasure of all data on the device, including the device name. The ITunes window can't even identify the capacity or serial number. What a cluster.

In case anyone was wondering how this was resolved, I had to ring Apple Support. Secondly, this problem was compounded by the fact that I only backed up to the Cloud, not my PC. Stupidly, on my iPad after it lost all it's data, I clicked on 'sync to the Cloud', which overwrote my good backup.
I had to set my iPad in iTunes up as a new iPad, and move everything back over. From now on I am only going to sync to the PC.

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