How do I recover my password for restoring an iPhone backup using itunes?

I used the "encrypt backup" password protection feature in iTunes for my iPhone when I set it up years ago.  I have a 3Gs, just downloaded and installed iOS5, and it's asking me for my password to restore the backup onto my iPhone with the new operating system only I forgot that specific password and there doesn't appear to be any "lost password" functionality.  Please note, this is different than the standard Apple ID username and password...this is specific to encrypting iPhone backups in iTunes...I have my Apple ID username and password.  Does anyone know if there is a way to recover or reset the password protected encrypt backup password so I can restore my latest backup and not have to start from scratch with everything...PLEASE?

Hey Gremlin,
Can you let me know if Apple fix the issue? I lost a heap of pics from when my daughter was born (well technically I still have them, it's just that they're unintelligible garble).
Oh and if you're worried about iTunes deleting your backup, they're located in your home account (if you're using a Mac). Just go to:
Macintosh HD/Users/<your_username>/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/backup
Copy the files to another location and you should be right. I don't know how you get iTunes to recognise them if you put them back though, haven't tried that yet.
Regards,
Chris
PS. I've made a couple of posts about this, some of the info there may help. One thing though, I don't think the password is restricted to 4 digits as mentioned there. Can anyone confirm that?

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