Iphone 3GS stuck in restore mode...PLEASE HELP!!

Yesterday my microphone stopped working on my phone. I called tech support. They told me to run a restore on my phone (which I had thought I had done but didn't). They told me I would have to pay $200 to replace the phone since I am 30 days outside of my warrenty. Needless to say, when I got home from work, I figured out I didn't do the restore (I'm not the most tech savy person out there).
I have a 16G 3GS and it has been in restore mode for about 6 1/2 hours now with no progress. I do not know what to do! Nothing is happening. I use a PC with Window's Vista and have ISO 4.3.3 installed on my phone. The silver apple with unmoving progress bar are on my phone. I've tried a few fixes I've found and could understand on here with no success (ie. trying to get the computer to access the phone to jump start the process again). I don't know what else to do! I know I don't want to unplug the phone from the computer. Is there a way to stop the restore process and just reinstall the phone to the previous sync with out completing the restore? I have not gotten any error messages.
Any help in laymens terms would be much appriciated!

If this happens to anyone...follow the steps in the above article. If the phone freezes in the restore mode again follow the steps again BUT unplug the USB from the phone, then the computer and use a different USB plug on the computer. About 20 minutes later, phone is restored, synced back to my last sync and my microphone works! Only 8 hours in total but at least its for something!

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It is just stuck. I can't even turn it off.
Any help gratefully received!
Thank you.
Nick

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