ITunes will not backup any devices anymore.

I have researched this over the past few days and tried just about everything I could find with no fix working. Here's what happens.
iTunes synchs normally with no error messages. It never show the backup process at all and appears to never even attempt to backup. This is the same regardless of the device (ipad2, iPhones 3G and 3GS all with the latest IOS). I am running on a windows 7 ultimate 64 bit machine. UAC is completely off.
Here's what I have tried so far with no success.
1. Validate the backup folder rights and set Everyone to FULL access.
2. Deleted the entire backup folder. After doing that iTunes did recreate the folder during the next synch but it still didn't backup the device.
3. Deleted all the old backups. The last successful backup was in 2/2011 and I synch about once a week.
4. Deleted the iPod Photo cache older in the photo synch folder.
5. Downloaded the BackOff tool to try to turn backups back on using that tool. It did show that iTunes automatic backup was off. When I click the option to turn it back on nothing changed. It appeared to do nothing at all. I would run it, turn auto backup to "on" using that tool. Then if I ran it again immediately it showed that auto backup was still off.
6. Reinstalled iTunes (without uninstalling). I am running the latest version.
Any ideas on trying something else? Short of totally uninstalling or resetting my entire synch history I am out of ideas. As a side note I only realized this situation after trying to update my iPad 2 to 4.3.5 and it failed. I lost a ton of pictures and app data and had to restore from February. (Royal PIA)
Thanks.

too funny i wrote this and literally 1 minute later found a post that hrlped fix it. deleting the iTunes folder in the following location.
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