How can I get my contacts from iPhone ios5 to my mac osx10.6

I recently upgraded my late model 2006 iMac to OS Lion. I also updated my iPhone to IOS5.
Lion is not really configured to work seamlessly with an older mac, so I reverted back to OSX 10.6.
This means I've lost all contacts in my address book.
Is there a way of retrieving contacts from my iPhone IOS5 so I can add them back onto my mac?
This is so frustrating and until I can afford a new mac, I need to find a way of getting my contacts back.
At the moment I don't want to synch my phone with my mac for fear of losing content on my phone.

It might take a bit longer, but it's risk free:
Use your iMac to send your contacts in an email to yourself
Open them using your iphone.
They should arrive as vcf format and you click to open it and hey presto!
Also works the other way round, so when I receive an email from a new contact, I register it on my iphone and click on "share contact", sending it to me which I then open on my Powerbook.
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