Can't Install iOS4 onto iTouch! And How to Backup?

I have iTouch 3G(8GB). I synced my iTouch yesterday. Took it off the computer then I updated iTunes to iTune9. Then I replugged iPod in and hit the "Check for Updates" and the computer started to download the iOS4 software. Then it "Prepared iPod for Backup" and then "Backing Up iPod". I left it on the computer overnight. And then this morning I got the "Unable to Backup iPod, do you still want to continue? Your library and music may be wiped" message. I hit cancel and now I don't know what to do!!
Also I was reading other people's post and they say something about backing up.. What does that mean? Is it the same thing as syncing and how do you find the backup? Please help; thank you!

My wife and I were able to upgrade by starting the upgrade. When the "Backup" stalled for hours, we "Stopped" the backup, disconnected the iPod Touch, restarted iTunes, reconnected the iPod Touch, did a normal sync so iTunes and iPod Touch were in sync, then did a "Restore". During the restore, skip the "backup" step. The restore proceeded and when done, we had iOS 4.0, and all of our stuff from the most recent sync. This did take awhile (2'ish hours with all the time to restore 32GB of junk), but it did keep moving forward, and we had iOS 4.0, and we had all of our stuff when all was done.
One not nice thing was that there were a few items purchased on the iPod Touch that did not seem to want to sync back to iTunes. Those were lost. In my case it was some music I did not care about.
Your mileage may vary.

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