My iPhone 4g contacts have disappeared - Lion Macbook Pro

I installed Lion from my Leopard Macbook OS a few weeks ago and, out of nowhere and after multiple syncs on Lion, my iPhone contacts totally disappeared today. I've restarted the phone a few times, reset the syncs, downloaded isync (which got deleted in my Lion installation but didn't even recognize my iPhone), reset my Gmail contacts, created new Address Book groups, etc. Nothing I'm doing is getting my contacts back and none of them show up as anything but the numbers (no names or other contact info attached).
Does anyone know what I can do to solve this problem? I'm on 4g, 4.10.00, Lion on Macbook Pro, newest iTunes, newest iSync. I would appreciate any advice!!

Thanks for the response. Yes, the contacts in Address Book (AB) are all On My Mac. They've always been there. My Gmail AB also is set to sync to the phone but it stopped working at the same time. I restored both the Mac/Gmail AB but it didn't solve the sync. For some reason, iTunes doesn't seem to recognize my Mac AB although everything on AB looks fine.
I do use Time Machine on my backup drive but it doesn't really solve the problem, I don't think. Mac/Gmail AB are fine. I wouldn't think that Time Machine would solve an iTunes problem since I haven't done any updates for iTunes in the last week.
Does that clarify?

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