Contacts won't sync to iCloud or Address Book

My contacts displays on my Iphone 3Gs (iOS 5.0.1) but i cant sync them to Icloud or Adress book.
Ive tryed every guide i can possibly find on the web...
Here´s two out of like 25 i have tryed.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10330054-263/syncing-contacts-from-your-iph one/
http://www.karthikk.net/2011/06/how-to-sync-contacts-with-icloud-on-ios-5/
Problem nr 1:
If i go to contacts on my Iphone i can see them all but if i click on groups it shows only one group (All Contacts) and when i click  that group again ill see no contacts, however they´r still on the phone if i send a massage or manually put in the right phonenumber to anyone in my contacts.
I have to either restart my phone or turn Icloud contact sync off or on (Depends what it was when i did the above) and they wil show again.
Problem number 2:
I want to restore my device but i need my contacts backed up before i do it.
I have a backup in Itunes but if i restore from this im stuck with the same problem all over...
So why not back them up on my mac? Well the thing is Itunes wont let me back my contacts up in Adress Book.
I connect to Itunes Choose my Iphone from the meny, go to the info tab and select Sync to Adress Book and all contacts but the promt for merge contacts dosent show up and it just syncs (including contacts as it says so in the window of Itunes) but nothing happens.(Isn´t it supposed to show some sort of vCard import window here?) My Adress Book is still empty.
Problem Number 3:
Trying to sync to Icloud.
Same story here... Turn of my Icloud contact sync on my Iphone, back up to Itunes, turn my Icloud contact sync back on but it never asks for a merge and i still got no contacts in the cloud... (well it did ask for me to merge like 2 times but that was no use since i had no contacts on my computer)
And yes all apps, programs and OS are up to date and ive also gone through the Apple Icloud setup ste by step ike 10 times allread.
Anyone have the same problem or know how to fix this?

First check that all your settings are correct, that contact syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the contacts you are adding are added to your 'iCloud' group and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud group (you can do this by checking in groups), non iCloud contacts will not sync.
If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your contacts are in the iCloud group, you might try unchecking contact syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling contact syncing.

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