Can I get my contacts back from old backup files after restoring iphone?

Hi,
I've recently upgraded to windows 7. My iphone crashed recently and I have restored it. It is now working but all my contacts, apps etc are lost, I assume because I had never synced the iphone since I got win 7.
Though I dont have my old XP computer anymore I do have got the old hard drive out of it, so I was able to go into it and copy the folder containing the backup (c:\documents and settings\USERNAME\application data\apple computer\mobile sync\backup\) so I have got the old backup but I don't know how to use it. The backup is a folder containing several .mddata and .mdinfo files.
Just putting the backup into the equivilent folder in win7 doesn't work so can anyone help me to do one of the following:
either - use the old back up to restore my iphone in windows 7
or - if the above is impossible or very complicated does anyone know how to read the old back up? I really just want the contacts which I can enter manually if necessary so I its possible to extract the contacts as text from the mddata and mdinfo files that would be great.
I'd be really grateful if anyone can help.

A 3rd party utility called MobileSyncBrowser allows for extracting this data from your iPhone's backup.
http://mobilesyncbrowser.com/
I suggest you start syncing contacts with a supported application on your computer as is designed and intended.

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