Iphone 4.0 lost contacts and calendar when synching

Hi. I did my usual synch with my iphone 4.0 and itunes via USB last night and hey presto all my contacts and my calendar have disappeared from my iphone. My itunes is set up to synch with my outlook account and has been happily doing the same thing for months but not last night Added to which all the contacts that were on my iphone that i'd added manually, and all the updates to calendar I'd added manually to my iphone have been wiped off. I now cant' see anything on the SIM card for contacts or calendar.
Any thoughts/help.
I am pretty lost without this and have no idea what happened or how to resolve it.
Thanks.

Hi. I did my usual synch with my iphone 4.0 and itunes via USB last night and hey presto all my contacts and my calendar have disappeared from my iphone. My itunes is set up to synch with my outlook account and has been happily doing the same thing for months but not last night Added to which all the contacts that were on my iphone that i'd added manually, and all the updates to calendar I'd added manually to my iphone have been wiped off. I now cant' see anything on the SIM card for contacts or calendar.
Any thoughts/help.
I am pretty lost without this and have no idea what happened or how to resolve it.
Thanks.

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