You HAVE to be kidding me!!!

I purchased an iphone 4 on Friday the 30th of July. On the 31st, it completely DIED when sending a text message, and would not boot up. So I returned it. Picked up my replacement one today. That worked just fine until about an hour ago, and it tried to do the 4.0.1 update.
Now, its stuck in a restore loop. Will not restore at all. gets about 2/3rds the way through the restore process and then tells me that it can't be restored. Error 9.
I am ready to throw the thing out the window!! This phone has got me locked into a 2 year contract and I can't use the stupid thing for more than a few hours before it tries to brick!!!!!
Has anyone got any solutions for fixing this? I REALLY don't want to drive all the way across the city for the 4th time this week to return another iphone 4 that I have had for less than 24 hours.

thanks, I restarted everything (AGAIN) and tried one more time and it seemed to work that time.. .
However before I do a back up from the last image of the phone I had recorded, is it possible that there is something corrupt in the backup??
i set the first one up as a new phone, then restored this replacement one with that image (that was less than 24 hours old). Now this one has had a spaz as well.
Should I restore it with a backup or set up from scratch again??

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