No backup possible

In its supreme wisdom my smart iphone3GS spontaneously decided to reset itself forgetting a bunch of settings, all contacts and all apps and reverted to speaking English. Upon synchronization much of this was still gone (eg the mail account settings and all app icons), but at least the contacts reappeared.  The synch failed with the uninformative error message (translated from German:) "iTunes could not backup due to an error".
Sounds familiar? solutions apart from going Android?

Actually, in the meantime I did, and apart from the email account settings and the expected loss of all media and app-specific settings as well as app-folder structure that did it.
It is still beyond me how a team of professionals can create such a buggy op sys. 
But thanks for the speedy reply.

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