IPhone 4s no longer showing contact names

I updated my iPhone 4s the other day to version 7.0.6
Since then, although all of my contacts are still present on my contacts list, their names are no longer displayed in the call history, incoming calls or on messages making it very difficult to identify messages and callers.
Have tried the obvious turning off and on of handset but to no avail.
Would really like this rectified as I don't think my brain is quite up to remembering all of my contacts numbers!!!

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I'm having the same troubles and after searching for a while i found
the following solution:
In short (from http://gyoo.com/blog/?p=48)
First, some figures:
iPhone camera resolution: 1600×1200 (72dpi)
iPhone screen resolution: 320×480 (160dpi)
iPhone contact picture display size: 64×64 (160dpi)
iPhone contact picture display size on call: 320×270 (160dpi)
Outlook import resolution: 72×96 (72dpi)
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- On your PC, create a folder iPhone Photos\Contacts and move your contact photos inside Sync the photos into your iPhone with iTunes through the Photos tab.
- Select the iPhone Photos folder as source.
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- Sync back the iPhone with iTunes.
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