Lost some customizations when computer crash

I was right in the middle of work in LR 4.1 and my computer crashed. There was a problem with my video card all of a sudden.
I got that resolved and when I went back into LR, catalog opened fine but SOME of my customizations were gone. 
All the user defined presets I had imported were gone.
The customized Name I had put in for my Lightroom interface was gone.
My user defined folders were all gone.
All my publishing plugins were there and working, but I had to reinitialize them with the service.
But all photos were there and histories and import settings, etc . . .  They were all fine.
I can eaisly re-build what I need. In fact, it cleaned things up a bit so I can do things a bit differenly. (Tagging is such a beautiful thing)
At first I thought it was a right side/left side thing.  It seems like most of the things effected were in the left panel.  But then I started noticing a few things in the right panel. Nothing as big.  The most notible so far is I always had cropping set to maintain original aspect ratio and I found this was turned off.  And then I saw all the information I had set to display on the picture previews was missing . . . . .
I KNOW it's the same catalog file.  What happened? The biggest pain will be re-importing my user presets . . . . but I'm dealing with it. It just had to happen in the middle of a big project.

Welcome to the discussions,
if you have a backup of you 3G before you lost the contacts, you could restore from that one. But as every backup replaces the old one, it has to be an iphone backup included in your computer backup routine.
You iphone backup folder is located here:
Windows Vista and Windows 7: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
copied from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766 , About backups

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