yo barry,
go to google type in touch dev click on the wiki article. go to "decrypt firmwire" and find the 1.1.1 version, go to the link and it will download. from there, you can put it on your desktop. If it is automatically unzipped, right click and click "make archive" it will appear as a zip file on the desktop. right click > get info. click name and delete .zip and put .ipsw
there will now be a cube looking icon on your desktop. go to itunes, click alt + restore and let go. click on 1.1.1 ipsw on the desktop, and it will extract it.
it was all good for me until it said i had an error (1). i don't know how to fix it...im working on it. DOES ANYONE KNOW?!?
EDIT: these instructions are for a MAC. if you are on windows, i dont know anything, hah.