Itunes backups missing!

Last night my ipod froze/crashed - it got stuck on the apple screen - it took me all morning to restore it. All my apps have been put back, (even one I downloaded a couple days ago) but only some of the data came back: My contacts, youtube favorites(the ones saved from my ipod) were restored along with data from games like high scores and exact places in games but my calendar (the included one), Notes, and most of my downloaded app's data is gone! (ie PocketMoney and AwesomeNote contents)
I have let itunes backup the entire thing within the past month or 2, I remember because I was tired of waiting hours for it to backup and found the tip to delete the icon cache in AppSniper, and then I backed it up to see if it sped it up which it did. Itunes will only show me a backup from May 2009! I have backed it up quite a few times since May and it won't show them, HELP!!! Heck it's crashed and been restored between then and now and I never lost my notes (which date back to the day I bought the thing). I NEED THIS DATA BACK! Help! Is there a way to get these backups to show up in itunes??

Thanks,
I had saw this page before, but the key of backing up my iphone from a backup from more than a week ago, was from My Time Machine.
The backup feature is kinda weak if the thing only backups my current iphone setting and date replacing the older backups...WHAT LOGIC DOES THAT HAVE?
I feel bad for the others who have had to backup their phone and don't have time machine-
I simply went into time machine ,I dont have time capsule, I just have a regular MY BOOK 500 GB removable drive- Anyway, I went into time capsule to my last backup date in Feb.- I went under User/Library/Applications/MobileSync I believe, and there it showed the two backups I had done for that day, i selected them, and restored them and replaced the backups I had done today, and there I had it. Everything is synched, but I wish the itunes saved more than one recent date for backups.

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