Back Up failure at the end of syncing iPhone 3GS to to iTunes 10.1.2

Have an issue with backup process during sync- not sure but it may have been just since iTunes 10 update. The sync process happens ok until the end when I get an error message stating 'iTunes cannot back up the iPhone "tenorclef31's iPhone" because the backup cannot be saved on the computer.'
Any way around it? All the software/iOS is up to date. I'm a bit wary of restoring the iPhone to factory settings since (a) it is working well otherwise and most of my important stuff is either on Dropbox or synced via Exchange 2007 anyway and (b) the restore might set me back quite a bit if there has been no recent backups made.
Any help would be much appreciated!

I've had the same issue. I followed the instructions on the linked page and deleted the one backup. Now when I try to backup I get the message that it cannot backup because the backup is corrupt. I keep checking in the Setting/Devices page and there are NO backups listed. Also, the linked page says that the backups should live in the directory:
\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
(I'm running windows XP). There is no such directory. There is no "Application Data" directory under any of the Documents and Settings subdirectories. I do not want to do a restore since my phone is working ok, and doing the restore would mean that I would lose all of my Apps.

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