"My Conversations" SMS contact list has vanished

To send an SMS I have, until this morning, been able to open "My Conversations",....New SMS....and hit the blue "To" button to evoke my contact list. Now all that shows up when I hit the blue "To" button is a screen message that says "No Contacts, (select contact)" but it shows none of my contacts when I know danged well my contact book has 194 entries. The "To" button has simply ceased evoking the contact list to open. So.....here's my question. I've got OS 10.2010.19-1.003,...the N900 downloaded it the night I bought it. Can I remove the OS and re-instal as a means of making the phone "see" the contact list in the New SMS "To" screen? Or is there another fix I could use. Either way, I want to be able to select recipients for an SMS right from the SMS "To" button. It's so convenient !! Help please !!

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I've not used it myself, but Bento might be worth looking into--Bento on the Mac pulls your Address Book data (I'm pretty sure) and syncs to Bento iPhone.
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http://apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
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