Can't restore my iPhone 3GS (w/iOS5); backup session failed.

I'm practically at wits end, here.
For two days I've been trying to restore my iPhone 3GS and so far, nothing. 
The problem happened after I downloaded and updated my iPhone with iOS5.  When I tried to restore it from one of three back-ups that I had, I ran into
that error (-50).  Managed to get passed that and tried again.  When I did, I get the message saying "iTunes could not restore the iPhone ****** because the backup session failed."
It doesn't just do this for my most recent back up; it does this for ALL of my back-ups.  Is there any kind of fix out sure-fix for this (barring getting a new phone)?!  I think I've tried several strats that I've seen in other threads and nothing has worked.
(btw, the comp that I'm using primarily is Windows Vista)

*update* GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!  Turns out that I was able to restore my phone from a back up, after two days at it!
Unfortunately, the back up was from a year ago!  At this point in time, I'm just glad to have my contacts back, though I feel that now would be be best to make sure I keep backing up my phone to make sure this doesn't happen again o.O

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