Address Book problems on iMac & Desktop & Palmtop - Please Help

I had the sync working fine yesterday: Mark/space with Tunsgsten T/X
Everything working fine and what folloewed only occured with address book.
My palmtop address books synched with the desktop - which then synched with iMac and all was sweet.
Then I decided to make some changes to the palmtop as the e-mail addresses weren't shown on iMac address book - so recategorised everyone with e-mail addresses on my palmtop - to home/work.
Then came home and synched yesterday (but did have the mind to send all contacts to my desktop as a back-up via bluetooth prior to synching) only for it to delete all my contacts bar about 6 - which I had created the previous day on my palmtop. Nightmare.
So I delete all desktop addresses and imported from the back-up file I had just made. Not too bad - but did lose all my contact folders.
So I spent about an hour re-categorising them on the desktop - then synched - and all contacts are restored.
Now..... my question - why did this happen? All I did was make lots of changes on my palmtop. Why didn't it synch ok?! Just when things begin to look like they're working - they ** up again!!! It's a nightmare.
Also - for some of my contacts on my palmtop I wanted to group them together within a folder - for example:
Folder: Family
Group together cousins so enter -
(Surname)"Cousins, Thomson" (Forename) "Tom"
This seemed to work ok for the palmtop. I get a list of
Cousins, With their name alphabetically to the right
Cousins, e.g.
Cousins, Thomson, Tom
Cousins,
But when I synched to my Mac and then to iMac address book - when I click on preferences (Surname then Forename)
it doesn't do it the same way. It sorts them out:
Surname, Cousins, Forename
Why's that? And also - they are not in alphabetical order (And I did click on the name tab so they would be). They all seem to be messed up. Any ideas why that's happened?
I would go through them all and change the groups I made within the folders - but I'm worried the same thing that happened above will happen and I spend another hour sorting out preferences.
Sorry this os sooo long! Thanks for your help!

If you backed it up onto your external drive it should still be there.
It might be worth booting from your install disc, navigating to Disk Utility, and then repairing your boot drive.
If no joy, you could also check into some of the software for rescuing data like Data Rescue II. I believe you can download a demo to see if it will work for you before purchasing it.
Do you still have the original hard drive in your iBook? If so, it could be beginning to fail, as they generally have a useful life of 3-5 years. Check the S.M.A.R.T. status--if it says anything but "verified", your drive is dying. If it's old, it could still be dying, even if it doesn't show up in the S.M.A.R.T. status yet.
Good luck!

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