HT4859 can i restore contacts without restoring iphone settings

I  think I'm having problems with phone setting when i restore my iphone 4   ios5.1 so i'll like to know if I can restore my contacts without getting the old backup settings back on the phone?

While updating to 2.02 last night, I got the message the the update and firmware install could not be completed and it bricked my phone. After attaching the iphone to my pc several times it said to do a restore. The restore took about 45 min. After the restore it brought back to "Set up Iphone" page with the only options of 1) New Iphone or 2) Restore Name's Iphone and continue. If you hit continue it just does the restore process all over again. I was not able to sync my phone at this point. I finally called support and after an hour online they were about ready to give up. So they finally as a last resort said select "New Iphone" the next page was just a screen as where files will go. But hitting continue brought me to the sync screen and now all is good. Seems like a poor choice on the restore settings page and why didn't Apple tech know this simple fix??

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