I forgot my passcode. Please help explain the steps to restore

Forgot the password after changing it :/ So what should i do? It locked me out for a good 5 days. now i can stop it getting locked by attempting to sync into itunes and that way i tried 40 different combinations with similar patterns to what i THOUGHT i'd set it to. i don't want to loose my contacts or texts. most of my music is in my library so thats not an issue. i've seen a few videos on youtube where you hold down the power button and the home button. would this work? i backed it up last week (before i set the new password). when i just went to restore it, it offered me a choice to back it up again as well. if i were to back it up now would that make it imposible for me to restore since the new back up has the lost password on it? or should i just restore it to the one from last week??? Please help?? Phoning doesnt seem to work. i want to restore it to the backup i made last week but the way its asking me if i want to back up before i restore is what's confusing me.... if i click "dont back up" it says it will restore to factory defaults and everything will be lost but if i back up does'nt that mean it'll just restore to the way it is now...as in it'll restore itself to the part where i dont know the password... if any of that made any sense :S

If you are unable to restore your iPhone with iTunes without having to enter the passcode, you will not be able to update your iPhone's backup. You will need to place the iPhone into recovery mode in order to restore the iPhone with iTunes and you can restore from the most recent backup available.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808

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