Any way to back up data on an iPod touch (3rd party apps)?

I think I know the answer to this one but I'll throw it out there just in case. First of all, I'm apparently one of the lucky ones who has my iPod touch lock up at the apple screen several times a week during certain syncs (normally adding or removing apps) only to find it hot as a skillet and totally unresponsive sometimes hours later. At this point I'm pretty much used to having to completely rebuild the iPod touch regularly (at least it takes a little less than 6 hours now). What I'm wanting to know is: is there any way to back up ALL of the data on the iPod touch??? The data in all the built in apps is there after a restore and even some of the third party apps seem to keep their data (Shopper for instance has my shopping list). The problem is most apps just dump all their data and it's a pain to reenter everything and it's aggravating losing any scores or progress in games (yeah, I know. not really a major issue). Some examples include: Bloomberg loses all of my stock information, Units loses quick conversions, OmniFocus looses all settings (db is "in the cloud" so data can be retrieved) Chopper loses all scores and progress, Motion X Poker loses all scores and progress, all my weather apps lose the cities I normally load into them... I'm sure there are others but these are some of my most used and thus most missed after every restore.
Every backup completes and I never have any errors. It's just clear that "backup" really means partial backup in this case and I can't find any way to even do anything about it manually. Is this something the application programmers have control over? Or is this just something that I'll have to wait for another update to the software? On a related note is there any consistent way to lessen the crashes? I've searched quite a bit and it seems like it's fairly random. I've relegated myself to only adding and deleting apps through iTunes but that still leaves me open to crashes. Not to mention it completely eliminates the browsing and spur of the moment shopping on the iPod touch. As for a potential hardware problem, my 16GB before this with the same apps loaded did the exact same thing so I don't think it's the hardware.
Thanks for any help or advice. All in all I do love this thing I just wish it would become more stable. After all I thought that was the reason for the close control Apple was keeping over developers.

Thanks. I hadn't seen that before and I'll have to look into it a little more. The one thing that has me wondering is the part where they state that the iPod touch is now supported "for iPod to computer transfers only". I would think that given the nature of the product there would have to be some way to transfer the data back to the iPod... I might have a look at the demo version after work here. I guess the obvious question is; have you used this with an iPod touch and had success?
Edit: Just noticed this seems to be a Windows product only so it won't actually help me. Thanks though.
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