Stuck on Restore screen

Unfortunately I don't have internet access at home and couldn't upgrade to ios5. So I backed it up and took it too the apple store and had them upgrade to ios5. After I restored to a previous version, the apps didn't show up so I downloaded the apps again at the apple store and got almost everything. At home, I tried to sync again but I keep getting the setup/ restore screen. I tried restoring again but keep getting that screen, can't seem to get past it to the summary screen. The guy at the apple store wants me to uninstall iTunes on my pc or try setting it up as a new iPad but I'm worried about losing everything and don't want to do everything again. Advice?
Thanks,
Josie

Thanks for all the input. After I posted this I talked to someone else at the apple store who was more experienced and he told me to set it up as a new iPad on iTunes to get past that screen and assured me it would work (even tho it sounded odd). So I went ahead and did that and it worked, moved on to the summary screen and found all the rest of my files that I couldn't find before. He explained the hierarchy (?) of what reloads and what has to be done manually. He was much more knowledgeable than the others and would have saved me a lot of time if I had talked to him sooner. I still need to figure out how to reload my videos but at least I know I have everything. Thanks again!

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