Restore Needed but Can't proceed.

Hello, when I turned on my iPhone 3G (2.2) this morning, it displayed 'Restore Needed' message and said that it cannot make or receive calls. When I plugged in to my computer to do a restore with iTunes. iTunes told me to unlock the phone with my password since my iphone is protected. The issue is that I have no where to input this password on the iPhone!! The only screen that iPhone is showing is the Emergency Call keyboard. So I am stuck. I tried to reboot the iPhone but no success.
Can someone help me please or experienced the same issue?

thanks for the advice! pressing the home button brought the phone to forced restore mode. I had to press it for a really long time- maybe 4 minutes. but since the apple store is closed, I really had no other hope.
now it's trying to restore, and I'm crossing my fingers that that works!

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