Updated to IOS 6.0.1 Now in Recovery Mode and cant Recover. Help!!

I updated to the latest IOS about a week ago and my phone became very buggy. I would have music playing and if i hit the next song the music app would close and almost all other apps would crash when trying to go to different windows. So i tried restore because it says "if you are experiencing problems with your iphone, you can restore its original settings by clicking restore" so thats exactly what i wanted. Now every time I try to restore i get an error 21. I have googled this and havent seen any solutions. Right after it extracts the software to restore the iphones screen goes from the "connect to itunes" screen to a quick flash then the apple logo. Please help its my only phone.
Also this thing has been taken care of perfectly. No water damage, in an otter box. Not a single scratch on it.

I should add that this has never been Jailbroken. I keep reading that a lot of times this is the case for a jail broken phone.
I have also gone through the not very helpfull steps on apples site to fix this.. It is not a security issue since i dont have an antivirus or any 3rd party software for my computer.

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