Does the upgrade restore your iPhone to factory settings?

I was wondering if the software update wipes out your phone clean?
I entered in all my contacts manually and I don't want to lose them.
Message was edited by: sam Inman

Oh, and by the way... sync your phone everytime you add ANYTHING.. I did a restoral which DOES wipe everything clean.. but after it was all done.. even my contacts were still there.. not the ones I added since the previous sync, but all that where there before my previous sync were there!
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