IPhone contacts lost while syncing

I went to sync my contacts with .mac and accidentally clicked the wrong button. I should have clicked on merge but instead clicked something else and now all my contacts are lost. I attempted to search for address.data.previous but this is the first time I synced and there is no previous backup. Help!!!!!

I would think that all users would have a contact list established on their computer in the first place. Like in Windows XP, Microsoft Outlook has all my contacts as well as phone numbers and e-mail addresses. This is where ITunes got the list to place on the Iphone in the first place. It takes little effort to create this data base and so handy to use. Call it insurance if you will.

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    1 : <CFString 0x30eaa0 [0xa03361a0]>{contents = "DisableTethered"} = <CFNumber 0x10f000 [0xa03361a0]>{value = +1, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
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    1 : <CFString 0x30eaa0 [0xa03361a0]>{contents = "DisableTethered"} = <CFNumber 0x10f000 [0xa03361a0]>{value = +1, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
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    7/10/09 7:54:54 AM /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/Current/Apple MobileDeviceHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/AppleMobileDeviceHelper[290] 290:2692392736|AppleMobileDeviceHelper.m:_setTetheredSyncLockdownInfoForTarget| ERROR: Could not find a device with the target identifier 3411946e713a2b2e0ac342d8faa77da5d4c7da0a. Assuming there are no disabled data classes.
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    Does this help?

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    I followed these directions:
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