Windows won't recognize my iPhone, but recognizes someone else's. What do I do?

I plugged my iPhone in earlier tonight to sync and backup my phone before I did my upgrade. I had a ton of problems that I never had... was stuck still on step 2 after an hour. I kept getting out of iTunes and retrying, finally got to the last step and it was backing up my apps, but was stuck on one FOREVER. I got out. Finally updated iTunes, got back in, and now it wasn't even recognizing my device and iTunes immediately froze, twice. Restarted my computer. Restarted my iPhone. Tried to update drivers, but said I had the "best one" already installed. Did some windows wizard things that had me uninstall my USB drives, then restart to reinstall them. Nothing. Restored my computer to the point of before the iTunes update. Nothing. Restored back to 2 weeks ago. Still nothing. Keeps saying the USB Device Cannot be Recognized.
So I gave my husband my phone and asked him to plug it in on his computer. Nothing. He then plugged his phone in on his computer and it recognized it perfectly fine. So we know the cord works. I then took HIS iPhone and plugged it in to my computer and it recognized it... So we know my computer is fine. It's got to be my phone, but what? How? We both have 16gb iPhone 4's.
I don't have enough memory to do the upgrade so I need to move photos from my phone to my computer but I am so lost now as to what I should do. What could be wrong?

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