Address Book Names Missing -- Just Phone Numbers

A friend of mine has an iPhone, but does not have MobileMe. She wanted to sync her contacts (which were on her iPhone) to her Mac's Address Book (which had no contacts).
After connecting her iPhone to iTunes, she went under the "Info" tab and selected the checkboxes to sync Address Book information. The problem with this was that there were no contacts in her Address Book. So now, her phone no longer shows the names of the people she added -- just their phone numbers!
Any way to find out these peoples' names?
Thanks.

One thing that might help.
If itunes did a back up of the iphone before the sync.
First open itunes preferences and go to the devices tab.
Check the box to disable automatic syncing for all iphones and ipods.
Now, she can try to right click, or control click, on the name of the iphone under devices in itunes and choose restore from back up.
Hope this helps.

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