OS 3 Upgrade wiped out all contacts

Hi there.. this is heart breaking! I lost all my contacts after upgrading to OS 3.0. Tried the restore thing by right-clicking on the iphone settings in itunes. didnt work... unfortunately i do not have a backed up copy of my contacts. I know, a big mistake! Is there no way of restoring my contacts? I'm a windows based user.
PLEASE HELP!!!!

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