Contacts groups disappear imac

Hi All
Somehow my groups in the contact list have disappeared. I do have all of the contacts but there group setting are not being displayed. I tried using the time machine and was able to go back a week or so and in the display saw the groups but when I brought them back in the contact applications the groups are still mising.
Is there someway to restore the Groups? Any help in greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advacne for any replies
Michael

Yes, I did the re-boot and it did not solve it. Another thing is I went into the time machine and could see all of the groups as well as all of the contacts within them but when I try to restore it from the time machine its just says all of the items are duplicate. I did a back up and then deleted all of the contact and went back to the time machine and could not see the contact data. I had to re-install the backup I made, all is back as far as the contacts are concern but still do not have any of the groups, you would think the time machine backup would restore the groups. I may need to just re-create the groups which is alot of work.
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