ITunes crash in middle of 3.1.1 update - now Touch stuck in recovery

My iTunes crashed in the middle of updating my Touch's firmware to 3.1.1. Since the iPod is in recovery mode, every time I start up iTunes to try and continue the install it asks me to restore it, which I'd like to avoid if possible. Is there another way to continue installing the firmware? I've got the .ipsw file for the update still.
Thanks!

I managed to get mine working in a similar way to you. I copied my iTunes library, the touch firmware updates (which are located in ~/Library/iTunes/iPod Software Updates) and the touch backup (~/Library/Application/Support/MobileSync/Backup) to an external drive. I opened the copied library using a different computer and copied the other files to the right directories then everything worked fine, ran through the software update and restored my backup without any crashes. Problem solved!
This leaves me with only one conclusion there is something wrong with my mac not the ipod touch. As it is working perfectly now none of the problems you are describing when syncing though.

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