Critical error in my address book using Nokia OVI ...

I downloaded Nokia OVI Suite (NOS) on Oct 3 2009. I synchronized all available elements: Address Book, Messages, Notes Photos etc.
Then (after some days) I sync. My E71 with Outlook by using (old and trusty) Nokia PC Suite.
After a day I realized that some! of the phone numbers of some! of my contacts disappeared. I can't tell which and how many details (data-element/s) in each contact data were deleted. I can only tell that all contacts are still there, but some of them with no phone number or missing phones.
I know that if I was aware of  this problem before sync. To Outlook, I could have saved most of my data.
I also found a full backup of my E71 dated 16 Aug. 2009.
I have about 1,200 contacts and I can't tell which was damaged and what is that damage.
Can somebody help me to recover this problem?
Message Edited by avx1 on 07-Oct-2009 02:10 PM
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ovi suite is still a great IDEA and emergency back-up for if you loose your phone while traveling to sync most information on the go, but not great for your regular syncing.
PC Suite is solid. though the mapping is still off with regards to the zip codes.  it formats the zip code to go before the city on the address field.
if you are going to use ovi suite, i would only suggest using it to sync your pictures, download the maps information, but nothing else. 
it will mix up your contacts information as well.  ie-if you have more then one email address on a contact, it often will duplicate the email address and erase one of them, especially if you are using multiple products to sync.
your best bet is to reload from your previous backup of contacts and resync to your outlook with pc suite.
note that even with using pc suite on multiple pc's with outlooks, that you will still have some challenges with duplicating, etc regarding appointments in calendars and/or contacts that you have deleted may resurface...so i have found the best thing to do is to make one master pc, and then only do a 1 way sync from the phone to the pc on the other pc's.
i agree with the above poster that i am also 100% sure it was OVI suite that did it.

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