Can't see recent backups when trying manual backup or restore

My iphone crashed the second day I had it (2 weeks ago). I immediately did a restore from the summary page in itunes. I have since had other problems caused by an application. All apps and functions working fine right now, except at this point I see no other backups listed other than the one done on the second day when I look in the backup list accessed by starting the MANUAL restore process. I don't even see any manual backups I have performed. I synch my iphone once or more per day. Because of this (I think) I am losing all app data whenever I have to restore after crashes because I can't choose a more recent backup to restore from. I just did a manual backup and it's not in the list. Help!!!

As Allan stated, there is only one backup kept during normal syncing. The backup created when you restore a device is separate from the one created when the device is synced. The backup created prior to a restore is marked in the syncing preferences of iTunes with the date and time when the backup was created. If you manually initiate a backup, I'm not sure which one that overwrites (it may, in fact, overwrite both).
See:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

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