Names of Contacts Disappeared from Favorites and Recents

Without changing any settings, the names of contacts in my Favorites and Recents have disappeared.
The phone numbers for them are there, but the names are hidden.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks,
JS

This just happened to me. See the thread named "Contact on Iphone no longer has phone numbers" (here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1613112&tstart=0).
If you browse your contacts, you'll see that they have no phone numbers on them. Something is going squirrelly with the push sync.
The solution in that thread worked for me: On your Mac, goto System Preference -> MobileMe. Goto the Sync tab, and click advanced. Reset Sync Data, making sure you sync all data on MobileMe with info from this computer. That cleared it up for me. Hope it works for you too!

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