I can't get Itunes to recognize the oldest backup I have on my PC

So basically I lost photos and contacts during iOS 5 update. I messed up by doing a complete restore trying to get everything back but accidentally unplugged my phone while it was restoring the firmware. So I went under the appdata file/mobilesync/backups and found a back up that has 1006 files in it. Im assuming its the backup with all of my old media because the other 2 backups only have 82 files in it. (I should note that its not a really old back up, they were only created minutes apart) So I tried to restore from backup on itunes but iTunes isn't recognizing the older backup folder. How do I get iTunes to recognize old backups?

Make sure that your Quicktime is up to date with at least v7.1.5.
The video needs to be in a format that can be played on the iPod. You can use Handbrake or iSquint as well as iTunes to do the conversion from the Advanced menu in iTunes.
MJ

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