Stuck in Restore Loop after 3.1 Upgrade

Can anybody help? My iPhone is now stuck in a constant restore loop and I cannot downgrade to 3.0.1. My iPhone is effectively now a brick.
This issue has really got me seething at Apple. Do they not test these things?

Just tried to update to 3.1, should have read the forum first. Had I seen the problems everyones been having I never would have tried it. When the update was finishing the iphone disconnected from itunes then the screen showed that I need to connect iphone to itunes. Tried reconnecting a million times, rebooted my computer, and tried to reset my iphone. It won't turn off or reset. When I was finally able to get it connected to itunes again, it says it must be restored. I freaked out, because my pictures didn't get backed up (even though I had them checked) and I can't afford to lose them, or any of my contacts and calendar events that also didn't manage to get backed up. I finally gave in and decided to restore, and it won't even try to restore. My phone worked perfectly well before this update. To top everything off I'm going out of town tomorrow and now have no phone, no ipod, and no internet. Any suggestions would be appreciated, the only option I have for now is to go to AT&T tomorrow and rant for them to pull the info off my phone if possible and restore it for me. HELP!

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