Contacts being erased?

I've had my iPod touch for 4 years, never had a problem with my contacts but in last 2 weeks they have been completely erased twice. The first time I lost everything and had to start again as I allowed my ipod to resync with itunes before I realised and as a result lost ability to restore from back-up. The second time I was ready and managed to save by restoring from back-up. However it is very frustrating - is there any way to stop contacts from being erased? Please help!

Yes I went from over 800 to 111 in a keystroke....I tried to use the backup sync or whatever its called to no avail.
I fear it will overwrite my back up.
The local Verizon store said i need my old blackberry to download the backed up contacts and then go back to the verizon store to get them transfered back into my phone....
then what? wait for it to do it again....!
Oh and the contacts that didnt get erased .....I only have the phone numbers...no names or addresses

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