The phone is dead after unsuccesful upgrade to 4.2.1

I received an error message but can't remember exactly which - 1603, 1608 or something like that - anyway, the phone is dead. There is the Apple logo on the screen but I cannot turn it off so I cannot restore it. iTunes does not recognize it.
Tried to restart the Mac to see if that helped. Connected it to the MacBook but no. So what do I do now? I need the damned phone!
Hope anyone can help me out...

That was it! The strange thing was that I had tried that but I was probably too impatient. This time I pressed it long enough and iTunes recognized it and it is restoring now. Let us hope the rest will work as well - but as long as it is responding:)
Guess I just needed someone to cool me down and start thinking again:D
It is restoring from the last backup now...

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