Stuck in endless Apple ID Loop

I upgraded to iOS 5 today. restored everything signed up for iCloud. Now I am in an endless loop asking me to login with apple id and password. when i do it just resets the field with some random person's email address. i delete it and put my email and password and it comes up again with a new random email address. i hit cancel and a new email address pops up. i can't exit this and go to my home screen. i am stuck.

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