Ipad wont back up or sync

hi.
My nine-month old iPad1 has frozen. Whenever I restore it (holding down the home and top button), I get the Apple icon and then what appears to be the start of a screen-wide install bar ... it fills to about 3 mm and then stops.
The iPad will not boot up or do anything beyond showing this frozen part-install.
The iPad won't be restored from iTunes, won't back up or sync and mostly crashes iTunes (as in " Itunes: is not responding")
The iPad has plenty of battery charge, I've tried different USB ports, restarted my Mac ... done everything the forums seem to suggest.
I suspect this has happened since I stalled 4.3.3 but can't be sure.
Any help would be extremely appreciated.
thanks, in anticipation.
Nick

Holding down the home and top button is called Resetting. You Restore it using iTunes.
However, if your iPad stops responding, showing the Apple logo with no progress bar or a stopped progress bar, for over ten minutes, you can place iPad into recovery mode and attempt to restore. See this article for instructions iPad: Unable to update or restore, http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4097
The referenced article also has further links to follow if you run into problems.

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