My Iphone 3GS is stuck on 'waiting for iPhone' In restoration?

Hello:)
My iPhone 3GS (32mb) turned itself off the other month and on it appeared an itunes icon with a USB plug underneath it, i cannot turn my phone off ect.
Ive plugged my iPhone into the latest iTunes patch and it had successfully restored when i clicked the restore button, although once this had finished it came back to the summary screen and the only button i could press was the restore button again, so i have and then it went through all the apple approving and other things. But now it is just saying on the laptop screen 'waiting for iPhone' and the actual iPhone has the apple logo on it and a long bar underneath that is empty. It was like this for half an hour, no change or anything, so i unplugged the iPhone and pressed the lock and home buton ( to turn it off ) and then redid the iTunes procedure, it went straight to the apple verfication thingy then moved on to the 'waiting for iPhone' again and NOW its got the same stupid empty bar and apple logo please can someone help??? I tried contacting chat online on apple and it said i had to dial a number, but asking the community for free is much more useful than a crackly phone call that'll probably cost me a fiver hahaha thanks guys!
ps; No error reports

Did you ever got this resolve? I have your same problem phone type and all.

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