IPhone 4s and back ups

Hi,
I've had an iPhone 4s now since early February. Tonight I hooked it up to my iMac to do a sync and whilst syncing I received a text which did not have an assigned contact name, just a mobile no. So when I read the text I established that it was from my brother so could not understand why there was no name assigned. On checking my Contacts much to my surprise they were empty. On checking the iMac's address book
Now I sync my phone either via wifi or by cable at least once a week. So no problem I thought, I'll just restore it from back up. So I right click the iphone and choose to restore from back up. Much to my amazement the date of the backup is dated the 2nd of February 2012, over 3 montha ago! Now I noticed itunes said it was synced to iCloud however on my phone itself iCloud is only configured for reminders and Find my iphone. Are the phone settings what determines the info synced with iCloud? Even if that is the only info that is synced withiCloud surely I should have been offered a more recent back up? Like the one it made when I hooked it up initially, I'm certain the contacts were there prior to syncing.
So my query is two fold where are my back ups I make almost every week and what happened to my Contacts in the first place. I couldnt see any option to restore from my only back up and as a consequence I've lost all my diary entries and work email accounts etc. I'm sure worse things happen but its very annoying.

Thanks ED3K, appreciate the advice. I am now posting from a different pc so cant check readily but will later.
My question still stands though in that why would a back up not be there with a sync taking place almost every week? Earlier I double checked in Library/ApplicationSupport/Mobile Sync/Backup and there were 3 back up files, one dated november last year, one dated in April (which I think might be the first one for my iPad3) and one dated today. I'm guessing that one was created after I restored from back up tonight. So not only is my iPhone not creating regular backups neither is my iPad which is synced slightly less often.

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