Accessing corrupt files after restore

So i had to restore my iPhone 4s running iOS 5.0.1 tonight. When i restored it, i was prompted to upgrade to 5.1.1 so i did that. Once it upgraded, i was told that my backup was corrupt, so i tried to restore my phone to an older backup but was then told "ITunes could not restore the iPhone, because the iPhone refused the request". Or simply put, my iPhone is a 6 year old boy.
After abunch of reading, i managed to switch out my corrupt "status" .plist file for a newer, functioning one and got my iPhone restored. But once it was done the restore process, i was told that the file is still corrupt, but all all 7.9 GBs of my photos, notes, texts, etc is still on the device, it's just listed as a giant yellow "others" bar. My old wallpaper still remained though. What gives?
Any way to restore those files? Alot of them are important work files.
Thanks in advance.

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