Contacts disappear from iPhone and then reappear

Contacts disappear on my iPhone but are still on my Mac Mini.  When I enter them again on the iPhone they magically reappear.  Why is this happening?

I synced my iPhone today and lost all contacts on the iPhone and my iMac address book. My iCal is still working, though. I spent an hour on the phone with an Apple Care tech and I was unable to recover anything. We even checked my old 20 gig 2nd generation iPod by going to "disk mode" but I didn't have any contact data stored in it. Is there a "disk mode" for the iPhone?
I didn't back up my contacts in Address Book (go to File - Back Up Address Book) so I know I'm out of luck and that I should probably go get Leopard for the "Time Machine" application. At least Apple gets to make some more $ off me.

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