IPod Touch 4G Backup Missing

I have an iPod Touch 4G with the most recent software and iTunes on my MacBook Pro.  For whatever reason, the audio quit working on my iPod.  After turning it off and back on, still didn't work. Ditto with re-synching it.  So I go to restore it.  I back it up, and restore.  Well, I get an error message when I try to restore.  No code, just an error message.  I try to restore with prior backups listed, and I keep getting the error message.  So I have apparently lost all my app data, including in-app purchases.  I keep getting the error message with older backups that are saved.  Any suggestions for what I can do?  Where are all the backups that I am supposed to have from when I synch?  According to my computer (when I go through the path listed in the support forums), I have backup from today (which don't work), from July 21st, (which don't work), and from Feb.  I synch my iPod MUCH more frequently than that!  I do not have a more recent time machine backup (which I guess I need to start doing more frequently!) to get a more recent backup than that.
Edit:  I also have an iPad, which I backedup and restored to try to put some of the data from my iPod onto it.  As I have only had it for a few days (1st gen), I don't have much information on it to lose yet.  Interstingly, after the restore from backup failed from my iPod data, I was able to restore from my iPad backup that I just did with no problem.  I don't know why it will backup and restore on my iPad but not on my iPod.

My error message from my older backups says "because some files could not be restores from the backup."  I have no idea how to get around this.  The ones on my Time Machine from April also say this.

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