How to restore apple iphone 3g without updating software?

This is why i hate apple products, but anyway i wanted to use it purely for music, since i have a different computer i can't delete the music off this ipod. So best thing to do is restore back to factory settings. But it tries to download an update, and then fails. This is so frustrating, why does apple have to be so annoying with restoring devices and syncing etc.

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