Problem after faulty update. Phone got disconnected in middle of update!

Ok, here's my situation. I was updating to the new firmware and in the middle of it doing it'd thing, the cable got pulled out. The phone wouldn't start up any more so I had to do a hard reset. No problem I thought, I only backed up the phone the night before and I use MobileMe so I should be good. Well.... I'm not good. After it did the fresh restore it comes up with the "Set Up Your iPhone" screen. Has my phone number, has the date of my back up, looks fine. By the option "Restore from the back up of:" It has 4 options; My iPhone, My iPhone - Aug 5th 2008 10:08pm, My iPhone - Aug 5, 2008 10:09pm, and My iPhone. Whenver I try to use either of the two backups with the time/date stamps it thinks for a second and I get this error,
"iTunes could not restore the iPhone (My iPhone) becuase the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone that is being restored"
I wouldn't care because MoibleMe saved a lot of info, I just lost a ton of pictures of my 22 month old and some important stuff I had in Notes. The music and movies I can always dump back on myself. As well as the apps.
Is there anything I can do to get it to see the phone as compatible? Or force it to take the restore? Any help will be GREATLY appreciated!
(edit) By the way if it helps, the phone is linked to the Dell Dimension 8400, running XP and iTunes 7.7.1.11, but that's the iTunes that just updated tonight for me, not sure what it was at the time of the initial firmware update.
Message was edited by: Quote the Raven
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Zigzak solved the rest of my problems from the bad update in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8012932#8012932
Down towards the bottom.
If anyone else is having similar problems the fix was to "Hard Reset" your phone and set it up as a new iPhone, don't use a back-up. And to completely delete all trace from your computer about that iPhone. Most importantly the Apps. Then redownload them all again after the reset and new phone set-up.

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