IPhone 4S: SMS Messages labelled by phone number not by name

When I send an SMS message from my iPhone 4S it shows up labelled by my contact's name but when I receive a reply, it shows up as a new message labelled by their phone number. How can I fix this?

TheDave, That's correct, I'm sending it to their phone numbers.
I've figured something out:
When I imported all of my 3G info in the the 4GS, all of my past text messages were labelled by phone number. I read on another post that you could fix the name/number issue by placing a 1 before the phone number. It worked. However, now when any of my contacts call or text message me their names don't display.
I'm going to go back and take all the +1s off to see if that fixes the issue for new calls and messages. Is there anyway to get me old texts to display by name?

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