Did anyone else lose all their contacts from address book after the Lion upgrade? ...and how do I get them back?

I seem to have lost all my contacts from my address book after the Lion upgrade. I am a mobileme user and since it sync's with my MacBook Pro it erased all of by contacts. How do I retrieve my missing information?
MacBook Pro mid 2010, just upgraded to Lion and iPhone 4.

yes, i did too.. will probably just try to restore them from the iphone sync.

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