IPhone 3gs in endless loop and battery is not charging

Hi, I have tried to use as many methods from this forum as well as other forums but so far no success. I am hoping someone will be able to give me some idea. Much much appreciated.
I have a iphone 3gs 16GB. I can't get it to start up to begin with without charging it. The battery bar is red color. When I plug it in to either the charger or directly to my MAC, it will start charging. After a few minutes, the red battery bar will go away and the apple logo will appear. After that, the loading circle will appear and then it goes into an endless loop. I have tried to do a hard restore (power + home buttom), iRecovery or even redsn0w but none work as it cannot detect the device. iTunes also doesn't detect the device. I have cleaned all the connecters as well as tried it on my ipod, it works. Once the apple logo and the loading circle starts, I can't even shut down the iphone. The phone will stop charging after a few minutes and the cycle of charging will start again if I am plug in to the charger.
What should I try? Please help me . Thanks a million!

When you say you have reinstalled iTunes many times, have you followed the directions Apple gives for uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes and all it's ancillary applications and processes?
Apple's documentation on the process can be found here:
Windows XP: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1925
Windows Vista or 7: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
Mac OS X: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1224
I hope this helps.

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