Weird things that happened to you TRYING to update to iOS4. Put ur story!

Dear Apple.. I love you I really do! And I love your products and integration of everything with Mac and iTunes. BUT this is my second attempt to update to iOS4. And it seems that there are problems like this for SOOO MANY people in all major & semi-major updates!!
Well ok here is my story of my first FAILURE of an attempt. I'm on a black MacBook 1,1 running 10.5.8, iTunes is all updated and I have a black iPhone 3G 8 gig. I backed up my iPhone in advance like a responsible little person and downloaded iOS4. Then I started to update and another backup was being made. That took TOO long so I had 2 quit it and go to work! I come home and ok second attempt. The software was already downloaded so then i go to update. It starts to backup my iPhone and is taking its dear sweet time so I go do some other things. An HOUR AND A HALF LATER it was only 10% done!! And then out of nowhere the update/backup quits and iTunes gives me this error code that was like 10 numbers long! And gives me the option to update and not back up so I just say forget it. THEN I realize my iPhone is showing the screen with the big empty battery with the lightening bolt and the charger icon. So SOMEHOW while my iPhone was plugged into my MacBook and updating/restoring the WHOLE time, the battery was completely drained??!? I'm just at a loss. So I reset everything (iPhone and MacBook) and tied again.
Everything has worked so far. Albeit that the restore took like 2-2 & 1/2 hours! And it all seems to be going fine. My iPhone installed the new OS and I'm 6 minutes away from my iPhone restoring from the last backup.

So basically I had a REALLY long restore and then a weird iTunes error when I tried to update to the iOS4. Haha my attempt to upgrade to the 4.0 iPhone OS was nearly a failure.
BUT I AM a fan of the automatic restoring of your apps and music/media, rather than having to manually sync or drag and drop all of that stuff yourself.

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