Lost all contents and settings during 'routine' update to v1.1

Hi all,
Not too sure what went wrong, but I lost all settings and data during what I thought would be a routine firmware update.
In the middle of the update, the phone hung, and the PC gave me the error message that it needed to restore to what turns out to be factory settings. All settings, data, notes and pictures were gone! (no warning given!)
Since I didn't have a chance to download these before I got started, I'm not too sure what to say - if you see a way of backing up your phone before you update the firmware, I'd recommend that you do it.
I've updated a lot of firmware in my life - I'd have to say this is the worst and the first time ever that I've lost data.
In case anyone from Apple monitors this site - is there a way to seperate the data and the firmware area, so that if this kind of thing happens, you only wipe the firmware area?
The phone even initially told me I had to re-register and only offered me a way to make an emergency call ...
-R

Have you docked your Iphone in before updating? If so your contacts and settings should be saved. Yes your picture's are going to gone because you have to manually save them. According to this post http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1069906&tstart=0 it looks like the activation is down with ATT so this is why you are having problems getting all your contacts and settings and having to reactivate.
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