IPhone 4 issues with updating, restoring and unresponsiveness.

I plugged my iPhone 4 into itunes to update. The update 6 successfully downloaded, but when I tried to update my phone it did not work, stating that there was an error, and the phone must be restored.
After unplugging the phone and reconnecting it, the following message appeared: "iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode. You must restore this iPhone before it can be used with iTunes."
Now the screen on my iPhone says to connect to iTunes, which I have, and the PC (latest windows update), is remaining unresponsive to the phone and repeatedly displays the message mentioned above.
I also see when choosing a product below, that this phone is apparently not even registered with my iTunes account, which I thoroughly remember doing nearly 3 months ago.
This sounds typical, but please help as soon as possible- I am going on holidays tomorrow morning (it is currently 6:30pm), and I really need thisphone for photos and communication.
Thank you.

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