Keychain Backup Cannot Be Restored

Hi all,
I've been using my MacBook Pro 15" since purchasing it in November, and of the various cool software features of OS X that compelled me to switch, one of them - Keychain - has certainly been a point of frustration.
I have yet to successfully restore a keychain backup to a useable state. I've followed Apple's instructions for backing up important files to the letter - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301239 - and yet my Keychain backups fail to work; though the entries show up in Keychain Access, my user name and password is never entered, though this information exists in - and therefore should be provided by my Keychain.
I've tried backing up and restoring without a reinstall of OS X, and I've tried backing up my Keychain, reinstalling OS X and then restoring my Keychain files (as per Apple's instructions), and I never seem to have any luck. Yes - the information is still there, and I'm able to use Keychain Access to look up the information and re-save it back to my Keychain (after which the newly saved Keychain items work!), but this seems to defeat half the purpose of backing up.
I could almost just save all of my login names and passwords in a Word or Excel file and store it in an encrypted disc image. Sure - it wouldn't be nearly as efficient, but if I have to manually recreate all of my Keychain items whenever I have to restore a backup, what's the point of Keychain?
Also odd is that I can save several website user names and passwords to my Keychain, and they'll work fine, listed as "Internet password"s in Keychain access. If I back up my Keychain, reinstall (clean - format and isntall) OS X and restore my backed up Keychain, in addition to my login and passwords no longer working in either Safari or Camino, all entries that used to be "Internet password"s in Keychain Access are now listed as "Web form..." something or other (though all other information seems to be the same (user and pass and URL info saved correctly).
Has anyone had this problem with Keychain? I've read an awful lot of negative stuff regarding the Keychain feature of OS X since I made the switch and startd having my own problems with it. Just wondering if anyone else out there shares in my specific frutstration.
I would love to just be able to back up my Keychain when I have to and know that if I ever need to restore it - with or without having performed a clean OS X reinstallation - that I can do so and that the back up will just pick up where I left off and that they'll just continue to work, transparently, without any tedious manual user intervention.
PS - I've tried using Keychain First Aid, I've tried deleting my keychain preferences file, I've tried reparing permissions, and on, and on, and on....none of these things seem to correct the problem.
It should also be known that I've tried backing up and restoring with multiple versions of 10.4.x - always within the same version - never across versions. Doesn't seem to make a difference.
15" MacBook Pro, 1GB, 120GB, ATI X1600 128MB Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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