HT1692 Iphone 4 Erasing Contacts

I have an iphone 4 and my contacts have been erased multiple times today. Every time I turn my phone off and back on, my contacts are erased. I tried sync to recover them, but it just gets erased again whenever I turn my phone off and back on. How can I recover my contacts or stop my phone from erasing them everytime it has to be turned off and back on?

My wife was having this problem and I struggled with it, synching over and over and not seeing the new address book entry on her iPhone 4 running i OS 5.
Then I tried this:
Press the Groups arrow on the upper left of the screen that shows your contacts. Make sure the group you are viewing is All from My Mac (which should be the top-most group). You should see that your contact is indeed synched.
For some reason her phone had defaulted to displaying the iCloud group, but since our computer is not upgraded to Lion iCloud is not active. The iTunes synch should still work fine though.
Hope it works for you too!

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Then go ahead and try it. You'll find it's probably a load of crap.
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