Mobile Me preventing restore from backup on replacement iPhone4

Hi all, today I got a replacement iPhone4 because the home key had stopped working. I'm trying to set it up using my last backup but it stops half way, and MobileMe is up on the phone screen saying "Cannot find [email protected]". If I then look at the phone, some of the data has been restored (text messages, contacts etc) but some things like my wifi password have not been restored.
Anybody have any idea of what's going on? Is there some way I can restore everything except MobileMe and set that up later?
Thanks

I just tried again using an older backup - same problem "Cannot access [email protected] Review your account information in Settings. "

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