Itunes Quits while Restoring Iphone 3GS

Today, in a moment of inattention, I accidentally unplugged my Iphone during a a 3.0.1 software update. It went into recovery mode, with the screen of the little USB cord pointing to an iTunes symbol. I plugged the phone back into my computer via the USB. The computer recognized that the iPHone was in recovery mode and gave me a message to restore. When I tried to restore it, iTunes began to prepare to restore, but when it began to Verify the restore with Apple, Itunes unexpectedly quit. I tried the process again, after rebooting both the computer and the phone, but no matter what I did, iTunes unexpectedly quit when it tried to verify the restore with Apple. Is my iPhone damaged beyond repair, or did it screw up both the phone and iTunes when it became unplugged?

the screen that shows the cable pointing to the iTunes symbol is not recovery mode..that's the activation screen...
try putting the iPhone in recovery mode and then restoring...follow the steps below to get into recovery mode...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
You may want to try to uninstall and then reinstall iTunes before doing the restore just in case that will help
You should also delete the currently saved OS download in iTunes as well...
Goto MAC HD > Library > iTunes > iPhone software Updates > delete the current file that is named something like iPhone 2,1_3.0.1 then the build number...
This will force iTunes to download a fresh new copy of the 3.0.1 OS before it restores iPhone again...

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