IPad froze while updating to 5.1

I connected my iPad to my Mac and was notified there was an update to iOS 5. I clicked on update. It took forever to download and now I cannot close iTunes and my iPad shows a picture of the initial screen telling me to connect it to iTunes.Its been a couple of hours and nothing has changed. Any suggestions? I tried turning it off, but it won't turn off.

You could try a hard reset - - hold the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10 seconds until the Apple logo appears - ignore the red slider . That may let you restart the device, but I get the feeling that the "connect to iTunes" image will be on the screen when the iPad does boot up.
You might be best served going right into recovery mode. More than likely, you will need to do this anyway. Read this article and follow the steps to get back on track.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4097

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