Contacts disappeared, Can't sign in or out of iCloud

I upgraded to Mountain Lion, and there are two problems:
1)  My Contacts are all gone.  Totally blank Contacts.  However, when I use Mail, it's clearly still accessing my address book, as my contacts auto-fill when I type (although when I try to go to the Address Book option in Mail nothing shows up).  I tried trashing the Addressbook database from the Library/Application Support.
2)  I cannot connect to iCloud (or disconnect).  When I go to System Preferences, and select iCloud, and enter my password, nothing happens - just a long time of spinning.  All the options are greyed out - I can't uncheck Contacts or other options (when I first open iCloud, those options are available for a nano-second, but before I can click they grey out, and I just have the option of signing in (nothing happens), and when I try to sign out, I get asked "do I want to keep my contacts on iCloud"?  And the options are "Delete from Mac" and "Keep Contacts" and neither one does anything - same options pop up again.  Stuck in a loop.
PLEASE HELP! 

Thanks sdpitbull..
So meanwhile I've connected my addressbook to my gmail account so I could restore (sync) my contacts that way for now.  (Although my groups were lost..somehow that didn't transfer).
But still couldn't sign in to icloud on my Mac...finally did try to sign in at icloud.com, and that worked.  Rebooted again, and this time I was able to sign in on my Mac!
Had to then set up iCloud email on Mail, then everything else seemed to work.  Still mystified as to where my Contacts went, but fortunately I had exported to Gmail two months ago, so didn't lose much.
And now i have to stop syncing to Gmail contacts if iCloud is to work, but at least it's there.
Next task is to get BusyCal up and working!

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