IPhone 4 - all folders disappeared!

I've had all of my apps synced into folders for several weeks now. I just synced my iPhone 4 because I accidentally deleted one of my apps. Once the sync was complete, all of my folders disappeared! Now I've got to start all over again.
Has anything like this happened to anyone else?

That's along the same lines with what I was thinking. Also, the app that I accidentally deleted was a beta version of an app that is not yet in the App Store. So that gives another layer of instability right there.
But... even before I started testing this new app, something similar happened. I had an iPhone 3GS with a bunch of nicely organized folders. Again, these folders were created on the iPhone. When I received my iPhone 4 in the mail, I synced my 3GS one last time. Once I activated the iPhone 4, I chose to 'restore from backup'. I made sure it was the most recent one. Once the restore was complete, only two folders remained and oddly enough, they were empty. The rest of the apps were just listed alphabetically throughout the home screens.
I smell a defect... I think. That first folder incident was while using iTunes 9.2.

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