Any way to set aside a "known good" iPhone backup?

I've had lots of trouble with my 3G iPhone crashing irreversibly and needing a restore. Tonight Apple gave me a new phone- maybe that will solve it, but in the meantime, after four full restores, I really want a way to preserve a "known good" backup.
Every time I've restored, I've had to go back farther in time than I wanted to. iTunes gives me a choice of multiple backup dates, but I've found there's only a couple that are very recent, and they're typically suspect.
Is there any way to trick iTunes into preserving a particular backup version? As I understand it, renaming the iPhone won't do this. Can I duplicate and set aside some SyncServices folder and then replace it when I want to roll back to the known-good version?
I've been through a lot of iPhone 2.0 suffering here, and it would be nice to improve my odds for the future....

I've been able to get out of a bind by doing backups every so often on more than one computer. With the previous version iPhone, I had a few times when one backup was corrupted so I went in and used the backup from another computer that was about a week old. Just lost a few SMS messages and that weeks phone logs but nothing too important.
Hopefully someone else will have other ideas as well.

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