Iphone 4 on iOS 6 rebooting at will!

Hello,
I made the mistake of upgrading my iphone 4 to iOS6. Apart from the google maps missing and the battery drainage, my phone is demonstrating a more serious problem. It reboots at it's own will. Especially when I'm using it, whether it's playing games (and when I'm just about to win!) or tapping on a link that takes me to the app store! Yes, you read right, even opening the app store crashes and reboots the phone!
What can I do? I found some instructions to take it back to iOS5, but no success. I'm getting an error which I think means that this has been disabled by apple - as the error comes on when iTunes tries to connect to the apple website to confirm restore using iOS5.
Has anyone else with iphone 4 had this problem? And if so, do you know if it gets resolved in iOS6.0.1? I checked the list of fixes, but fixing the random reboots isn't on the list...
Thanks apple, I had a phone that was working perfectly and is now ruined because of this stupid upgrade!

Hi chrisfromgastonia,
Thank you for your response. I should have probably included the troubleshooting I've already done.
You see I've already restored the phone about 20 times, including (but not only) trying to upgrade to iOS5. I say that because iOS6 is actually downgrading!
Anyway, I tried:
- restoring from backup
- completely restoring/resetting to factory (but this still does iOS6 which is not factory setting grrrrr), then adding as new device then restoring from backup
- also attempted advice to restore to iOS5 but the apple website doesn't seem to allow this
- then I read on a site that if you install a later version of iTunes you can restore to iOS5, but this isn't working either because iTunes does not connect to the phone because it was used with a later version of iTunes (grrrr again)
So I have reluctantly given up on trying to upgrade to iOS5, unless anyone has a working suggestion on how this can be done.
So what I'm asking is whether installing iOS6.0.1 would at least stop my phone from spontaneously restarting.

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