My iPod touch gen 3 won't update to iOS 5!?!?!?!?!

My iPod touch shows that the current software is 4.2.1, and that that is the current one... But it isn't. Because iOS 5 is supposed to be compatible...!?

Make that 3 of us. 
What is going on? 
Ihave a 3rd generation iPod A1388 and I was able to update iTunes with no problem but when my PC tries to download the iPod software it goes all the way to the end of the download 637.2MB of 637.3MB and then stops times out and tell me that it lost connection with the server.  What gives here?
I have tried rebooting my PC, resetting the iPod but nothing works.
Here is the error I get.  And my connection is fine as it works for everything else.

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