How can I revert to a backup for my icloud account?

I bought my wife a new IMac which works great.  The problem is that icloud pushed all my phone contacts to her imac after I signed on to my iphone/istore account using her imac.  I deleted all the contacts from her imac (bad move) which in turn deleted all my years of contacts from my iphone 4.  I did a sync with my phone to itunes on my PC and did a revert for my iphone.  This worked great but when I went within cell range it erased all my contacts again.  I did another sync with my phone and turned off icloud on my phone.  My contacts are now on my phone only.  How can I get these many contacts back on icloud without physically retyping?  Can I make my old iphone backup the current icloud database?  Help!

This will help this from happening again but my question remains;  Can I make my old iphone backup the current database for my icloud account?  I want to activate icloud on my phone again and have my contacts backed up without erasing them.  I am going to set up a new icloud account for my wife's imac to prevent future problems. 

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