OS 3.1 install nuked my iPhone data! How can I recover it? Help!

I have an original 2G iPhone. This week, I updated my MacBook Pro (previous generation, OS 10.5.8) to iTunes 9, and installed the iPhone OS 3.1. Before doing so, I made sure to back up all the apps, music and media and all data on my iPhone. When I installed OS 3.1 however, all **** broke loose. My phone "bricked" (i.e., greeted me with a screen showing the iTunes icon and the USB cable plug), and would not let me restore it on my Mac. The folks at my local Apple Store helped me by re-installing OS 3.1 and restoring my iPhone.
When I returned to my office, I ran another sync with my MacBook Pro. The sync sessions only lasted a few seconds and stopped. I left my iPhone in its cradle, and to my surprise, the Mac and iPhone repeatedly and spontaneously tried to re-sync, each time with the same result. After shutting down and re-launching my Mac and my iPhone several times, I had a successful sync. But now for the bad news: while I recovered all my music, media and apps, all the data that I had entered in my apps was lost. I checked the Preferences in iTunes and inspected the Devices tab, it confirmed that all the previous data was lost.
Needless to say, I'm bummed. Is there any way to get the lost data back?
My hunch is that there was either some bug in the 3.1 installer, or a momentary hiccup in my Internet connection while downloading and installing 3.1. I haven't held out that Soviet interference might have played a role in all of this either. But seriously, if anyone has any clues on the cause, or more important, how to track down the package file containing my lost data, and restoring it, I will reward you with the Order of Hero of the Soviet Socialist People, and have a statue of you erected in front of Socialist People's Tractor Factory #14 in the lovely city of Chelablinsk, USSR. Thanks, comrades!

You can't. You have to restore the phone as new without restoring your backup as the password will just be restored if you do that.

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