Lost all my data while installing os4, how to restore?

iTunes performed a backup for about 12 hours when I tried to install the new os4. After the installation was completed, it asked me to type the password for the backup to be restored. What password? I hadn't entered any password for the backup. So I went to the apps tabs and restored the apps. Then I tried to restore again and BIG SURPRISE, the 12 hour backup was no more there. There was only a backup of the new empty iPhone.
I even looked at C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup but there are only backups of the new one and not the 12 hour one.
WHERE CAN I FIND MY DATA????

yeah... did all that... latest version is iTunes, backup before installing os4... didn't interrupt anything. OS updated juuuuust fine. Data, did I actually have data on my iPod? Apparently not. I only thought I'd been entering things for the past many months.
All my apps were there from the start after the upgrade, but zero data for anything. **** thing can't even find my own wireless network. Restore from backup only offered contacts and a couple other normal iTunes things - made no mention of actual app data and restored nothing else. What's the point of the backup if all your app data can simply go away?
Anybody have any bright ideas past starting to enter data again? Is there a way to actually back up app data or is that just oh well area...

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