IPhone 4 sync issue: apps keep getting moved and all folders deleted

I was hoping someone could help with this: I painstakingly organized my apps (close to 100 of them) into about a dozen folders. When I synced the phone after having done that, my carefully constructed folder system got deleted and the apps were randomly scattered over eight pages, which ***** as it's gonna take forever to re-create the folders and they're not even close to being grouped the way I had them.
I tried restoring the phone and then spent the time to reorganize the apps in iTunes instead of on the phone, and when I synced it, the same thing happened again - all my apps were scattered randomly over eight pages and all my folders were deleted.
Anyone else having this problem or know how to fix it?

This happened to me too! I was so frustrated. I went into the Apple store tonight to talk to them about it. The guy hadn't really heard of it happening so he talked to a "genius" and the genius said that it could happen if you have multiple backups saved in your iTunes and when you restore, it's picking up older backups. I said though that everything else that syncs is current, and it isn't picking up anything else from old backups. PLUS, SOME of my folders are there with SOME of the apps but definitely not all of them. He said the best thing to do is next time you need to do a restore, bring in your phone and computer to the Genius Bar and they could try to help.

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