Please help: Cannot restore iphone

Tried yesterday to upgrade my non-3G iphone to the latest software. Something went wrong and I received messages saying that I had to do a restore of my phone. I just went to do this (plugged phone into my PC running XP) and clicked on the restore button in itunes. After about 5 minutes, I received an error message saying "The iphone could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1604)."
What in the world does this mean and what do I do now? I'm left with a phone displaying the white USB cord with arrow pointing to itunes icon on screen.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks......

Hi,
have the same issue few days ago, just uninstalled 2.2 iTunes and fortunately I had version 2.1 installed it and everything was just fine - restored my iPhone and synced back everything ok.
Today updated the latest 2.2 fine and the iPhone is working ok.
the reason was I suppose you can't sync and update to 2.2 in the same time.
so it is important to sync your phone before you update to the latest 2.2 again.
forget about apple support - they are completely useless talking about "hardware" and 3rd party "software" issues - given the fact that I have not changed NOTHING on my PC and the iPhone it is pretty clear for me that 2.2 update and his dodgy USB driver are the most posssible reason.
So If you do not have the previous iTunes to restore the phone basically you are s....d
hope this will help you, it worked fine for me.
P.S. you SHOULD restart both the PC and iPhone after restore and before you sync. So disabling automatic sync is a good idea too.

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