The most strange problem with my 3GS

Hi everyone,
I would like to apologise for being so stressful today but I just received a phone call from my carrier from which I bought my iPhone and he informed that they need 615€ for repairing my iPhone
So, what's the story...
About a year and 3 months ago, I bought a brand new iPhone 3GS 32GB. After 9 months, I had a minor problem with the home button that did not respond some times. I went to my carrier to repair it and what the service department did was to change the mainboard at no cost since I had a 1 year warranty.
After that, the phone was functioning perfectly.
About 20 days ago, I wanted to restore from a backup, as I had deleted some phone numbers that I needed again. I connected the phone to my Mac, launced iTunes and chose restore. At the question "Restore and Update", I clicked "yes" and the process begun and finished. I had version 3.1.3 installed in my phone and updated to 4.2.1.
And here comes the weared part...
When the phone rebooted, ALL ICONS WERE GONE!!! I cound see only the wallpaper
I reseted the phone and when it turned on it asked to connect with iTunes.
I connected it and iTunes poped a message that the phone is in recovery mode.
I tried to restore again but in the middle of the process an error message poped up again about en error 1015...
The phone was rebooting again and again until it closed form low battery...
So, I went to my carrier from which I boughted for service. Afetr 20 days they called me saying that the phone needs new motherboard and it costs 615€ for reapairing it since my warranty was expired...
I have all the papers that proove my sayings. If you could see my phone, you would suppose that is brand new!!! Never fallen, never weted
OK, I can survive without an iPhone.
BUT I HAVE LOST ALL MY CONTACTS PLUS VARIOUS LOGIN PASSWORDS THAT I HAVE STORED IN AWESOME NOTE APPLICATION.
And I have one single and simple question: WHY?
What I did wrong?
Why I have to pay for 615€ for having my phone back?
Why I have to pay more to buy a new one since I had an excellent phone that did its work fine and was like a brand new one?
WHO IS GOING TO LISTEN TO MY PROBLE AND PAY ANY KIND OF ATTENTION?
I really don't know what to do... And you know something? I cannot afford to buy a new one...
Thanks for reading.

deggie, thank you too for your kind reply.
OK, I bought the phone from my carrier's official store (the central one in Athens which is the biggest in country) when I renewed my annual subscription on November 2009. It was sealed. And the change to the logic board 9 months ago was made by the carrier's exclusive service.
I have heard about "jail braking" hobbit and I GIVE YOU MY WORD THAT I NEVER DID OR TRIED TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT!
Why? Simply because I already have a Garmin GPS device and all I need from my phone are 4 applications that I needed to purchase in order to do my work:
1) FTPOnTheGo (in case I have to download or upload something in my server or change a PHP or JavaScript file)
2) Team Viewer (in case I need to reach my Mac from far away)
3) QuickOffice (for my Microsoft Office files)
4) Brain Challenge 2 (in case I am somewhere I have to wait and I want to "kill" my time)
That's it! End of story! Everything else is not useful for me at any level.
And something else... I am a programmer and web developer since 2000.
One thing that I have learned is NEVER HACK A READY-MADE PLATFORM BECAUSE THE NEXT TIME YOU UPDATE IT WILL CRASH!
The irony is that all people around me have jail broken their phones and they work like dopped horses I feel so stupid that I wanted to be the exception!
Finally, I spent the last 4 hours searching in Google for a solution. I found several things that made me say "Yes, this is the solution, I made it!"
I downloaded 3.1.3 .pwn, 4.2.1 .pwn and tried to restore but nothing.
I also tried redSnow, blackRain, yellowYogurt, blueOrange and all these jail braking solutions with the silly names but nothing worked.
I also tried a software named umbrella to stop the recovery mode. Nothing.
I pressed power button and home button for 10''. Nothing.
iPhone still reboots like a fading pregnant cow, it is still in recovery mode and I still get this 1015 error...

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