Lost contacts & photos after update to 4.2.1

Did the update to my iPhone tonight. Went through the usual procedure through iTunes. Afterward I saw first that many of my photos were gone. Then saw that many of my Contacts were gone. It looks as though it lost contacts and photos that were added to the phone after May 19. Great! I went back to iTunes and did a restore to Backup but that didn't fix anything.
Thanks, Apple!
I am not pleased.

I had the same problem today. Plugged the phone into my work PC to let it charge, and let it do the update. Everything was gone..:( Read the posts, but guessed that there must be a way back..
I plugged the iphone3 in first to my PC
Go to :
C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
Copy the last backup to be sure, and put in someplace on your desktop.
Then go to :
C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\Mobile Backups
Open the file called structured.
Copy all the files in this folder.
Go back to
C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
and paste the files in here..
It seemed like itunes kept a backup before it did the update..
I got all my contacts and messages back this way..
I lost my apps, but thats better than nothing.
Paul

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