IPhone 4S bricked after iOS 5.0.1 upgrade

I just tried to upgrade my iPhone 4S to iOS 5.0.1 with iTunes and I got an error message before it could complete. Now my phone is not recognized by iTunes and the phone only shows the connect to iTunes logo. I tried rebooting the phone by holding down the lock button and home button but it just shows the Apple logo then the connect to iTunes logo.
I'm using the latest iTunes version on Windows 7 x64.
Any help would greatly be appreciated but I'm not very hopeful I'll be able to fix this myself.

The restore on my second computer worked and I was able to sync the phone with my main computer to get everything back on it.
So, for anybody that runs into the same issue here's the steps I took to fix it.
1. Install iTunes on a different computer
2. Plug in the iPhone to the secondary computer
3. Perform a factory default restore
4. Unplug the phone from the secondary computer without setting up the iPhone.
5. Plug the iPhone into the main computer
6. It should ask if you want to restore from a backup
7. Wait for the sync to finish.
Not entirely sure what went wrong to begin with but I did send off the crash report to Apple when it asked so hopefully they can fix it.
Thanks to the two responders that tried to help but luckily I had a spare computer to work with!

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