ICloud deleted 1/2 my contacts...how can I get them back?

After having an iPhone since its inception... I've never had any problems migrating contacts. Now, I turned on iCloud contact sync for the first time today to test it out... only 105 of my 2 or 300 contacts show up now, I've tried restarting the phone, turning contact sync on and off, looking at the iCloud website to see if the full list is there (it's not), restoring SIM contacts (didn't change anything), and now I'm trying to restore an iTunes backup from a month or so ago (who knows if that will work...) Why is this such a headache? Why does iCloud irreversibly delete contacts? Please help, I have no idea what the missing contacts are and I'm super OCD, all had matching email addresses, AIM names, properly labeled alternate contact info... been building this address book for 5+ years and now it's evaporated??!??? Can't even get apple on the phone because my iPhone 4 is a couple years old. They don't have software support anymore? Super stressed about this.

I feel your pain. I awoke this morning to check my text messages on my iPhone (I'm away working in Norway) only to notice a text my girlfriend sent over the night. The title bar over the message listed her Italian mobile number instead of her name. I thought that odd, only to realize that virtually all of my contacts have disappeared from the iCloud. Even more strange, there appears to be no order, rhyme nor reason, or any form of sense as to what has been deleted. If this (and a few other issues I have with post-Jobs Apple) is indicative of Apple's trajectory, they're not going to be around long. I'm beyond ******-off over this and I'll be thinking very hard about buying Apple products in the future.

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