Recovery mode while installing iphone OS 3.0 msg 2006

While upgrading and installing the 3.0 update tonight before heading off for the weekend, the iPhone entered recovery mode. While trying to recover on my iMac, I kept getting error 2006.
I had to take the family to the 'rents this weekend and am trying to restore off of my brother's macbook. how can I get all my data back onto the iPhone?

I resolved my own question. For whomever encounters this trouble in the future:
1) uninstall whatever version of iTunes you are currently running and install an older version...any older version
2) download the last WORKING version of iPhone OS from someone other than Apple (because the attempts to download it from them will fail every time)
3) copy (not move or cut and paste) the downloaded OS to iTunes and also into the "Automatically Load into iTunes" folder
4) choose to Restore your iPhone and it will restore to the OS you just downloaded. You'll lose all your important stuff that iTunes doesn't like to backup, but your iPhone will work once again.
Dear Apple: how about uncontrol-freaking the iPhone so we can actually use it as an external hard drive and be able to properly back it up and restore it without being relegated to the less than tender ministrations of your MP3 loader (READ: iTunes), which is not geared for this type of work, even in the tiniest confines of your imagination.

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