Desired backup lost/missing from list, please help!

Hello there,
I've gone through a lot of topics but can't seem to find the exact same situation as mine. Please forgive me if I'm duplicating.
I have been using an iPhone 3G with iOS 4 and I wanted to downgrade it back to 3.1.3. Because I know that the iPhone 4 will be released where I live in a week's time, what I wanted to do was to do a backup, so that my SMS'es and other data can be saved from today till the day I get my iPhone 4.
I understand that if I go back to 3.1.3, I won't be able to restore any backups that I've done since I upgraded to iOS 4.
Here's what happened today.
5:21PM
I synced my iPhone 3G and just to make sure, I also right-clicked on my iPhone 3G and performed a backup
5:23PM
The backup completed
So I downgraded my iPhone 3G using the method from this site.
http://lifehacker.com/5572003/how-to-downgrade-your-iphone-3g%5Bs%5D-from-ios-4- to-ios-313
All went well. At the point where I was asked to 'Setup as a new iPhone' or 'Restore from the backup of XXX', I simply unplugged the iPhone (because I had to go out for dinner).
So the iPhone was working with 3.1.3 just fine.
Came back around 8PM, plugged my iPhone to my MacBook and iTunes showed the same screen, asking me to 'Setup as a new iPhone' or 'Restore from the backup of XXX'.
8:06PM
So, I thought, I should select 'Setup as a new iPhone', clicked on it, then nightmare! Because I remembered seeing from somewhere that the latest sync (in this case setting up a new iPhone) will automatically erase the latest backup.
8:07PM
The set up on a new iPhone was completed. I quickly checked iTunes>Preferences>Devices>Backup to see if the latest backup I wanted to keep was there or not. And indeed the 5:21PM back was wiped.
Now showing the following backups
iPhone 3G - 23/07/2010 8:50 PM
iPhone 3G Test (this is the one where I was mucking around with the files and changing the log)
XXX's iPhone 3G - 01/06/2010 1:31 PM
XXX's iPhone 3G - 23/06/2010 7:55 AM
XXX's iPhone 3G - Jul 18, 2010 8:26 PM
XXX's iPhone 3G - Jun 24, 2010 5:37 AM
I really should have made a copy of that backup from 5:21PM and kept it somewhere before clicking on 'Setup as a new iPhone'. But it's already too late.
Can anyone please help me restore my backup that was created in the first place (the one at 5:21PM)? I'm willing to go back to iOS 4 for this matter. If it would help for me to post any screen shots of the folders and files, please let me know. I'll upload them somewhere and post the links in later replies. Because I've upgraded it since it was released, there's too much data to lose, especially my SMS'es. Please help~ Thank you so much in advance!
Best regards,
88kin

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Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, enter /Volumes/ as the path, and move the extra folders out of it. If you then need to consolidate the libraries, use this iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/
It is important to try to set your external drive up so it does not accidently get unplugged while you are using it - that can corrupt your database
LN

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