HELP! Can't restore backup after going from 4.2 to 4.1

I had 4.2b2 installed on my iPhone 4. I did a sync & it backed up.
I then restored 4.1 since 4.2 was very buggy for me.
When I went to restore the backup, it took like 5 seconds & of course the backup was not restored. I have too much information in various apps that I will lose if I can't restore that backup.
What do I do?

Turn off your iPhone, then press&release power to turn it back on while keeping the home button pressed for 20 seconds to boot up your iPhone in recovery mode (you should see the "Connect to iTunes" logo with an iPhone cable on the screen).
Then connect your iPhone do your computer, iTunes will detect an iPhone in recovery mode. Restore using the stock / non-modified iOS 4.1 firmware. After the restore is over, you will be able to restore your last backup (I was able to restore from 4.2 to 4.1, but if you get an error (besides the "backup session" pirated users are getting...) then you can just use any of the previous backups in the list (iTunes does a full backup before doing a firmware update, so if you look in your backup history, you should see at least 2 backups dated from the day you did the 4.1 to 4.2 upgrade, one from before the upgrade, and one from after the upgrade. Obviously you will want to take the first first one).

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