Had dupes of emails; now no contacts - iCloud w/iPhone 4

Hi,
Yesterday I kept getting duplicate emails from people on my iPhone 4 and I tracked down the problem to iCloud. I had MobileMe and somehow have both a .mac and a .me email address (I've never used the .mac). I checked my phone and since I couldn't tell what the problem was (I had both iCloud and MobileMe showing as accounts for my email) deleted both and re-added my main .me account. The duplicate emails went away. About an hour ago all of my contacts did as well. I am too confused right now. Any suggestions? I tried calling Apple since I have Apple Care, but apparently that was on my recently smashed iPhone 4 and I can't afford the $30 for phone support.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Tony Adams

FYI: It seems it was a network problem with my WinXP PC. After complete deletion and new installation of XP and iTunes my iPhone will be recognized correctly, Wifi synchronization works (mostly) fine.

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