IOS Beta iCloud Backup Can't be Deleted

I have an iCloud backup from one of the iOS betas that I can't delete from my phone or from the iCloud preferences pane on my Mac.  Apple seems to want to charge me for an incident to look into this which means that I'll never use iCloud.  Any suggestions?

I was having this same issue, I had 2 iCloud backups from the iOS 5 beta period that were taking up over 3gb and I could not see them on the manage screen in order to delete them. All I did was backup my iPad (with the non beta OS of course) and it automagically cleared out the old beta backups. Now I have all my space back and I can see the backup in the manage screen. Hope that helps.

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