I am losing contacts randomly

I have updated to IOS 5.01 and my contacts are dropping randomly, I have synched my phone but there not there. As of today, they were still disapperating. Anyone have this problem?

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It looks like you were not able to send iMessages to your contacts, and you've solved it by turning iMessage and FaceTime off and on again. It sounds like after this, your friend is not receiving iMessages because they are sending from your phone number.
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Thanks for your quick response...we don't have a copy of the old computer...Hard drive died one morning, I now have learned the hard way that what we did was really dumb, and am backing everything up . We were told that if we synched it with a computer that didn't have a library yet it would be ok?
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