Address Book Gone From IPhone

i had a trial subscription to Mobile Me. Last night I decided not to go ahead and join. I deleted my Mobile Me account as prompted. Today all my contacts on my phone are gone. I recently backed up my phone on my Macbook Pro so I hoping they are still there.
Did deleting my Mobile Me account cause my contacts to disappear? When I sync my phone to my Macbook am I risking losing my contacts on my computer as well?

Have you looked in your address book on your computer to see if your contacts are there? If you were syncing your contacts with just mobileme over the air, well yes when you deleted your account they would disappear.

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I have a problem and have spent hours researching but to no avail
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Thanks for your timely response. I really appreciate the heads up on the My Contacts Backup App since when you have gone from 4 copies of contacts to one you are starting to feel insecure...
Unfortunately, after following this to a "T" (2x) no luck... The mac address book was empty to begin with so I added three new contacts, synched and then started from there...
I unchecked the sync box and synched. Deleted 2 of the 3 contacts and checked the "sync contacts"--all contacts (I have no groups). It synched without prompting me for a merge and the new single contact did not show up in the iphone... bummer. Any other thoughts would be appreciated.
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I was wondering if there is a way to access Address Book data from the terminal. For instance, I would
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