Contacts are all mixed up after upgrade to iOS 5!! PLEASE HELP!!

I'm new to the support fourms, so not sure if I'm posing in the right place. I've searched the previous threads and can't find an answer to my question. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
I have a iphone 4, hubby has a 3gs and we use mobileme for contacts, calander and email. We recelty installed the latest iTunes and updgraded to ios 5. Somewhere in this process, our contacts got COMEPELETY screwed up! Many are duplicated. But the biggest problem is that information is getting mixed up between contacts!!! So in other words, information from one contact is mixing in with others and it's impossible to tell where the info came from and how to get it back where it's supposed to be. I have a PC and run WIndows vista. I do not sync my contacts with Outlook or anything else.
In desepration I moved over to the iCloud (got rid of MobileMe) but that didn't make things better or worse.
Is there any way to salvage this situation? I have hundreds of contacts and I'm fearful they are all ruined now!
Many thanks!!
Jen

Hi - I'm new to the support forum as well.
Appreciate this post was from October 2011 but there was no reply and I'm experiencing the same issue (albeit I have an iPhone 5) - did this issue get resolved?
Just rang technical support and the lady said she had a problem with her system and would call me straight back... but never did.
Thanks in advance!
Dan

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