IPhone is stuck on iOS4 and won't update, keeps crashing

Help!?! My dads iPhone4 is stuck on iOS4, everytime I try to update the software iTunes crashes. I've tried everything, disabling the firewalls, stopping the back up... I also cannot connect to the iTunes Store. Any suggestions?

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