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Are you shooting JPEG? You have much less control over the finished result in JPEG. Why not give RAW a try. You can fool around - for want of a better expression - to a very much greater extent with a RAW than you can with JPEG, including correcting of fairly severe under/over exposure. One of the pieces of software which camer with your camera is called DPP (Digital Photo Professional) and it's pretty good for RAW development, but there are numerous other products out there too.
I shoot RAW 100% of the time with my Canon 5D.

over/under exposure can be one of the biggest challenges in photography. What mode do you shoot in? Manual, AV?? You definitly want to be in one of the manual modes so you can control your shutter speed, aperture value, etc. I agree with the last post about shooting in RAW to an extent. However one the most important rules of photography is to get it right on the camera, if you can, before you run it through an editor. Remember, the more post production you do, the more the image degrades.

If you post some examples in the forum I can give you further advice. i will tell you this though. When you have alot of backlight to deal with, try getting the background exposed correctly and then use a light flash to light the forground. Lens polarizers always help in heavy sunlight as well.