Contacts wont list by first name?

Hey
I recently changed my cellphone company to which I needed to reset my iPhone to be able to unlock the phone for the new SIM card. Having done that it updated to 4.2.1 and I lost all my contacts (like so many others in here).
As if that isn't enough, all the contacts I add on my iPhone is sorted by last name instead of first even though I have been to Preferences->Contacts and put the sorting/order to be First name-Last name.
Any ideas why this isn't working? It is bugging the h#ll out of me!
Thank you.
Best regards, Jesper

As it turned out, it just needed a reboot :-P

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