IPhone staying in restore mode for an hour? Updating to 4.2 from 4.1.2.

My iphone 3GS has been staying in the restore loading screen for a good hour now and this is the 8th time i have had to restart the entire process. i have disconnected the cable, restarted computer and restarted the phone. now my phone is stuck in DFU mode because it cannot complete the restore. i cannot get iTunes to complete the restore and sometimes i wait overnight for the restore to be completed.

I'm in similar situation.....
My home set up is
1office PC (hard wired to sky broadband) 1 working laptop and my iphone 3g ( via wifi to braodband) i regularly doc and sync my phone with the office PC but not done since begin dec before I updated PC and laptop software.
I also have linked to ITunes 1x ipod nano 2nd gen (daughters) and 1 x Ipod touch 3rd gen (other daughter)
On thurs 30th decided to sync with PC but as it bombed out updated the ipod nano this was left overnight.... it sorted out the music download one happy daughter with xmas present (recycling my old one I found in cupboard)
Have been downloading 12 days of christmas so when tried to update on Fri 31st it said it would take 14 mins so i walked away ... forgot and returned to see it had not done it again after 3 hours!!! Meanwhile though I would get mobile me to sync correctly with PC after spending 6 hours updating my contacts 600 on the PC manually to get mobile me to be overwritten sucess. So I tried to update again this time said 19 mins then decided to restore.
After sussing how to transfer my downloaded items from 12day of christmas from phone I took the plunge to restore phone I attempted it 3 times over the next 8 hours Before my last attempt to restore I resinstalled an repaired ITunes then finally having decided to be patient I sat and watched for the full 24 mins to down load.
Watched it track accross the screen after doing a back up then at point of reinstall or what ever it does it stopped and gave me an error3259 stating my internet link had failed iphone was plugged in... and charging and intermittantly syncing during the day so I had no problems with that side Just very confused about internet link breaking as it was hardwired and safari & google chrome were working perfectly
Apple Tech guys please sort out this softwate update or at least tell me where the download is stored so I can manually install it to update my phone as 'm loosing phone no through sync regualarly
Ps My background is was an NHS pharmacy computer systems manager for 17 years so I do understand a bit about installing software on various platforms
any ideas would be appreciated

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