IPhone 3G looses contacts

My iPhone no longer associates the phone numbers with the contacts! My "favorites" list for example, doesn't have names, only numbers. My contacts, have only names, no contact information. Everything is OK on MobileMe and I thought it would fix itself. That was yesterday. Any suggestions?

This happened to me today. All address, phone number and e-mail contact information has been lost. Group membership also lost. Notes, names and company names are retained. I updated to 2.1 Sunday. I sync with Mobile.Me. Mobile me and computer address book are OK. I archived the computer address book just to be sure I had a good copy.
this occurred today just after I edited a not. That edited record was synced to mobile me OK. A few minutes later I looked and the number & address information was gone from this record. I added that information back. I have a duplicate record (old edited and new, re-entered info) on mobile me, only one record on iPhone.
I can't figure out how to delete corrupt contact info and replace with new sync from mobile me. I could delete all data & reset all settings. I'm a little afraid of that, also it warns it will take two hours.
I'll try calling Apple support and keep watching here for any updates.
What a mess.

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