I’ve now devoted several hours to attempting to regain the use of my iPod Touch, deceased since about this time yesterday. I have tried every method that I could find documented anywhere in the intarwebs. I have followed the advice of amazingly helpful people on #iphone on Freenode. But, alas, everything that I’ve tried results in the same “failed to restore” error message. So I guess I’ll be taking this back to Best Buy today and hoping that they’ll be willing to do a warranty exchange or something.

Many thanks to all the people who offered me advice and a shoulder to cry on. I’ll let you know if, miraculously, something works before I take it back to the store.

Trying the DFU restore for the 48th time …