"Please Connect to iTunes"  -- Help

Did update and then phone shows the above error message, and on itunes it says it has detected an iphone in recovery mode and iphone must be restored...what is going on? Tried powering down, hard reset...nothing. Certainly don't want to restore if don't need to - help!!!

Ive also had this problem with both of the last 2 updates for the iPhone. The update downloaded from the server, and when it goes to install onto my iPhone, iTunes freezes and my phone shows a dock connector with an arrow pointed to iTunes (for the last update I got the warning symbol and "please connect to iTunes" msg). This time I just restarted my computer and my phone and when I opened iTunes it said that my phone was in recovery mode. I had to restore my phone for the second update in a row. I had to re-sync all my music, video, photos, etc. Talk about a huge hassle/pain in the *! Im going to take it to an Apple Store, but unless they can downgrade and then try to reinstall the update so I can show them what happens, they will probably give me the run around with no real answers. One thing to note, iTunes will NOT auto-launch when I connect my phone.
Im running 10.4.11 and iTunes 7.5 (this happened before 7.5 too)

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