IPhone 3G Enters recovery mode when trying to upgrade to 3.0

When I try to upgrade to 3.0, while on the Preparing iPhone for Update screen, the screen on my phone displays the recovery mode image (USB -> iTunes logo). Then an unknown error occurs and it says it cannot upgrade. Now my phone is stuck in recovery mode. Then, my laptop doesn't recognize the iphone (Its a PC) and I have to plug it into another PC with iTunes to restore.
Ideas?
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Crimus, thanks. I took a look. My Touch WAS dead. There must be a ghost out there or the Gods are watching from Olympus. Last night, my Touch started cherping. Has anyone had a cherping iPod Touch; making lil cherping noises. Then all this stuff started flashing on the screen, though the screen is damaged and you can't see what it says. I decided to just plug into my Macbook. I got the "iPod in Recovery, wish to restore?" I tried, but it came back with "Error 2001" several times. I tried one more time, but unplugging the Touch, then plugged back in. Well, I'll be darn, it recovered, and is now restoring back to my backed up iPod files; currently downloading my music library.
I'll have to get a new Touch as this screen is toast. So, my next question is, can I sync my new Touch (I presume I can) to my existing iTunes library/apps, etc. In short, mirror what the existing Touch has? I really need to get to some notes I wrote on my note pad application.

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