Upgraded to 3G gave 2G to mom and can't activate it

How can I get the old 2G iPhone to activate. I have done remote desktop, and I can restore the firmware, which I have done (it is on 2.0), but it shows up as still being the same number as my current 3G iPhone. Does my mom need to get a new SIM card to get the phone to activate for her in iTunes? Whenever I have restored my iPhone it asked if I wanted to activate it as a new iPhone, but on my mom's computer it doesn't give me that option, it just lets me sync, but I can't get the phone to re-activate. Any help would be appreciated.

I had the same problem and was stuck like you are...then I found a solution! I thought the answer was going to be go to AT&T and buy a new Sim and try that....
My wife who got my old phone didn't want to wait, so she took out her old sim, put it in the iPhone, and it asked to connect to iTunes and walked through the activation process. Worked great...now we both have working iPhones.
The only caution I'll give you for your mom, the sim won't carry over any info, so, make sure she has her contacts and such in the computer to sync with iPhone when it's activated.
Hope that helps!

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