PLEASE HELP!!!!! iphone 3gs wont boot after apple sign....

On christmas eve my iphone for no reason shut itself down and wouldnt turn back on, whenever i tried turnt it on it would come up with 'Connect to iTunes'... as i didnt have my laptop on me at the time i had to leave it until today 26/12/2011 but now it wont show me the 'Connect to itunes' like it had before and wont boot past the apple sign, which now keeps flashing and my iphone wont appear in itunes to restore
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME I NEED MY iPhone!!
Many Thanks
Kara B

Ive now managed to start the restore process i got this message.. itunes detected an iphone in recovey mode. You must restore this iphone before it can be used with itunes.. then i click OK and RESTORE then it comes up with another message are you sure you want to restore 'iphone' iphone blah blah and i clicked restore and update which then extracts software...verifying iphone restore with apple...preparing iphone for restore then after about 3 seconds i get this message:the 'iphone' iphone could not be restored. An unknown error occured (21) ive tried this 3 times and still ot getting anyfurther ive uninstalled my security AVG and have turnt off firewalls ect... CAN ANYONE HELP ME GET ANY FURTHER???
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