Need help restoring AddressBook contacts (lost on sync with iphone)

Hi,
Just got a new iPhone 3GS, and have .mac. I had duplicate contacts in my iphone. To fix the problem, I deleted one of each, then synced my phone. I got the warning that 5% or more contacts would change, and continued (50% should change, based on my assumptions). I lost all my contacts. I tried to restore in iTunes using "Restore from backup" but only some of the contacts came back. Is there any way to recover the rest of the lost data?
Thanks for your help.

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