"Disconnected: waiting for iphone", "Slide for Emergency" HELP!

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I have an unlocked/jailbroken iphone. I made the mistake of updating it on
iTunes, and then got the "Slide for Emergency". I cannot do ANYTHING with
the phone. I saw on a thread that someone downloaded independence and
activated their phone and was then able to unlock and jailbreak it again. I
have downloaded iNdependance and downloaded iTunes 8 and then force quit
the iTunes Helper in Activity Monitor. But when i run iNdependance it just
says "Status: Disconnected, waiting for iphone."

Please help! What do I do?

I am not to familiar w/ unlocking phones, etc. So I need some details. Im
lost. I just want to get it back to putting my "Optus" sim card in it. I am
in Australia.

Thank you!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [e-mail] on 2 Apr 2009 at 3:02