Unknown error code (-1) help!

ive restored my phone like 7 times and it keeps saying this code and my phone isnt recognized, also before this i kept losing service and then a notifcation on my phone said that it needed a restore so i plugged it in and it didnt get recognized ! what do i do?

The update directly to your iPhone, did not succeed, correct?
Then you connected it to iTunes, correct?
The update OTA is 38MB, an "incremental" update, the update via iTunes is an full iOS update (~700MB). On the iPhone they effect the same result: an update, but on the Mac there is a huge difference, which has not been explained enough (this is the first time of such incremental update).
Since you tried OTA, and then connected to iTunes, in iTunes the original OS file (that could be used for a Restore) has been deleted, and the new one is not there because it was not downloaded.
How to solve this:
disconnect the iPhone, restart iTunes.
A1. Look into the MBP trash bin, if the "old" iOS is there move it to the desktop;
reconnect the iPhone, rightclick (Alt+Click) the "restore" button on the summary page, choose the iOS file on the Desktop and restore.
A2. If that works, rightclick on the iPhone Icon on the left in iTunes, choose a backup from before you started dealing with the update in the beginning; this gets your data back on the iPhone.
If this all worked, copy the iOS file from the Desktop to the ~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates folder; then you start the update to iOS5 process again in iTunes.
B. If A did not work: download the iOS5.0.1 (~700MB) file (not with iTunes but direct), leave it in the download folder for now, and then connect the iPhone (do a hard reset first), rightclick the "Update" button on the summary page and choose the iOS file in the download folder, update. When that works, rightclick the iPhone icon in iTunes on the left, choose "restore form backup" and choose a backup from before this disaster.

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Unknown error code 13014 problem, this is the first time I've ever seen it.

After I upgraded my PC, I copied old libraries and music files from the old hard drive to the new one. I installed the newest version of iTunes (8.0.2) and when I plugged in my ipod, I saw something I had never seen. Guess what it is?
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I uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes, restored firmware, moved Library Extras & Genius.itdb and do them again and again. Of course, none of them worked.
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Please Help me. I'm desperate. :<

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