My Contacts disappear for no reason

Have a new iphone4. For no discernible reason my contact list just disappears. When I try to snyc, it wants to delete my address book on my MAC so that it looks like to no non-existent list on the phone. What gives?

Did you have any e-mail account or other sort of sync account set up on the phone that has since signed out, deactivated or was deleted? Android's contact management system is broken down into layers. Contacts can be stored "On device" where Verizon Cloud will back them up. Other contacts will be stored on Google, Yahoo, Facebook, etc accounts that are in essence, "Cloud Storage" items. If those accounts sign out or disconnect, the contacts will disappear. To fix, all you need to do is sign back into the account holding your contacts.
Alternatively, consider these contacts as hidden. If you hit your Menu button, there will usually be a Show/Hide Contacts. Make sure there are not any unchecked contact lists that may contain your contacts.

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