IPhone Restore scrambles all my iPhone Desktop Icons

I just did a restore from backup and all my desktop programs/icons are now all in the wrong spot. This is frustrating as I had everything where I wanted it and now have to spend a good half hour fixing what the restore screwed up. If it truly restores from a previous state, why are all the programs moved away from where they were? Is there an iPhone program/icon manager so that I can easily move things from one page to the next without having to do it on the phone itself?

did you do a back up right before you did the restore? are you running the latest itunes and iphone software?
before 2.1, the icons would get rearranged anytime you added/removed/updated and app. with 2.1, this no longer is the case.

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