All contacts lost from phone

My phone has lost its entire contacts list. I have an iPhone 3GS and have recently updated to iOS4. When I go into messages to send a text, the phone seems to remember my phone's entire contact list when I search for people, but I can't actually pull up my phone's cotact list to actually CALL anyone.
It's a little annoying.

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    F.

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