HELP! I disconnected whilst syncing.. And now it's broken!

Hey there,

Hopefully someone can help me.

I've had my iPod touch for 10 months now, and i've never had a problem with it until now.

I was syncing my iPod, and it was quite a large sync cause I had lots of photos to add, and towards the end of the sync something popped up to say that the latest software had downloaded and was ready to install. So I clicked on that to do so. Meanwhile, it was taking a long time, and I really needed to leave the house, so I disconnected the iPod from my computer (probably only about 2 minutes away from completing it's updates and sync).

However now whenever I turn it on all it displays is an image of the white adapter (used to connect the iPod to computer) on the bottom half of the screen, and in the middle is an image of the itunes logo.

If I try to reset, it displays the apple logo for a few seconds like with any normal reset then comes straight back to this screen.

It is unresponsive on this screen and the only function it can now manage is a reset, which doesn't even reset to the main screen!!!! When I connect it to itunes nothing happens and the device is not recognised

I've searched the net high & low and there seems to be no trouble shooting for this problem. I'm hoping someone can help me cause I feel lost without my ipod!!