IPhone won't stay unlocked after official O2 Unlock...

As per a previous topic, I now have the official carrier unlock applied to my iPhone 3G (originally only on o2). Reason for requesting unlock is that I've gone abroad for a month.
I'm having some problems with the implementation of the unlock. The first time I put the Sim in, it requested the phone be connected to iTunes, which I duly did. The phone then appeared to be successfully unlocked - and indeed, a Vodaphone NZ sim worked fine.
However, when I put my phone into airplane mode, or swap to my O2 sim card and back to the Voda one, the phone then re-presents the "please connect to iTunes, different SIM installed" screen - and won't let me do anything until I do.
Anyone got any ideas on making this unlock actually stick on the device?

Thanks for the tips. Rebooting doesn't work, have tried that.
Restoring the iPhone - ahhh what a lovely process apple have come up with here... Given I'm abroad, web access is transient at best via wifi. And I can't use the data connection with my chosen NZ provider as the phone won't stay unlocked!
Is there a way to restore the phone WITHOUT a web connection? Itunes insists it must download the software - which is a 250MB download on a platform which doesn't support resumable downloads (What is this, 1998!?)
I'm loath to do a hard restore (Turn Off, Hold Home Button down for 10 seconds, incase this breaks the phone even more).
I'll definately be having words with my local apple store when I get back - I've never ever had this much trouble doing something as simple as an unlock before.

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