Phone contacts replaced by e-mail contacts

Hi there. I'm a new iPhone user. I bought an iPhone 4 (8GB) on Friday, October 14th. Verizon was able to sync my phone contacts from my old Chocolate 3 to the iPhone, no problem. The problem now, just a few days later, is that my Yahoo e-mail contacts have completely replaced my phone contacts. Even in my call log, entries are now listed by the actual telephone number instead of the name of the person I was talking to. I am not using iCloud, by the way. My syncing is done manually by plugging my iPhone into my iMac and using iTunes.
I suspect that I can go to a Verizon store (again) and have them transfer the contacts from my old phone (again). I'd rather not, though. Is there a way to fix this at home?
Of far more importance, how do I stop this from happening again?

I did go to a Verizon store and had them transfer my contacts again. I'd still like to know how they were erased before and how to prevent it from happening again. Oh, and both email and phone contacts are together now. That's not a real problem. Just FYI.

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