ICloud Deleted a ton of contacts and all my contact groups

I just updated to 10.7.2 today and turned on iCloud. I synced my contacts and for some reason all my groups are now gone and tons of my contact are gone. I think all the contacts that were on groups have been deleted. Please help.
I have my address book backed-up on time machine but this is very frustrating. How can I keep this from happening again when I restore my old contact file?
thanks for the help.

I was able to fix the problem. Here is what I did:
Went into terminal and made my Library folder visible (entered:chflags nohidden ~/Library)
Closed the Address Book Application
Opened the address book folder under library/application support.
Entered Time Machine and restored the address book folder from before the 10.7.2 update. Tell it to not replace the post 10.7.2 version of the address book folder.
Opened Address Book (use the address book application support folder that you restored and make sure the other one is named "AddressBook (original)" or something like that.
You should see your groups again in address book. Go to File: Export: Address Book Archive. Save it to your desktop. Close the address book app
Go back to the ApplicationSupport/AddressBook folder and delete the one that you restored and re-name the AddressBook (original) folder to simply Addressbook.
Open Address book again. Your groups will be missing. Go to File: Import: Then import the Address Book Archive that you just created.
Lo and behold your groups should be back. You now should have on your groups section of address book a "On My Mac" and a "iCloud" category of groups. To move groups or contact to the cloud, just drag them onto the words "iCloud"
Hope this helps.

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