E7 not restoring contacts after Anna

I got an E7 and started using it. After a while, I synced it all to OVI Suite, took a backup, and installed Symbian Anna. Previous to this I had set up MfE in a (futile) attempt to sync two-way with Google's services (downlink worked, but towards Google it didn't).
Okay, at the Anna update, the phone was cleared of my contacts (and maps etc), so I thought I'd sync again. Well, that didn't help one bit (perhaps now contacts were removed from the OVI Suite because I don't see them there anymore). So I restore a backup - and now I have no contacts at all on the phone. What the hell is happening? I seem to have three backup files on the pc, I've tried two of them and the third is so small that I doubt my contacts are there.
Nokia, how hard it is to guess if a user wants to have his contacts cleared or not? Seriously guys?

If you had the contacts as Google contacts, you wouldn't have needed to install a third party app to restore the contacts.

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