Backup will not finish

I tried to upgrade my iPhone 4 to iOS5 when the option was offered to me.  The first step in the process brought up a window that said it needed to do a backup and the process may take 1+ hours and should not be interrupted.  The backup process never ended.  The first time, I let it run for 20 hours and it just kept showing the "Backing up..." status window.  I finally had to give up and hit the Stop button but that was not even enough.  I had to go to Task Manager and end the iTunes application and then shut down the AppleMobileDevice process to get it to stop.
My iPhone4 still says it is running Version 4.3.5(8L1).
Now whenever I connect my iPhone, iTunes starts up and the first thing it wants to to is a backup and it never ends.  Everything currently on the phone works fine but it is now completely impossible for me to load anything onto the phone because it can never get through this backup.
Does anyone know of a way I can get through this?
Thanks.
Ken

I continue to have the same issue as you. I even deleted what appeared to be a bogus backup using itunes:preferences:devices path on my laptop, and started a new sync after powering off my phone and reconnecting to itunes. Backup freezes 50% of the way through. I can cancel the backup, and contacts and such will continue to synch and finish. The backup process is gagging on some item, perhaps a corrupted piece of data (app?)

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