Restored from backup and all contacts gone???

I had the problem of the "OTHER" taking up all the space on my phone and it started the only way to get rid of the "other" was to do a restore... which i did.. before i did that. i had a current back up of my phone to itunes...so i thought "this will be no biggie".. i restore, then use the recent backup and the phone is an exact copy.. EVERYTHING is there (all my emails,texts,photos,background,apps, even last visit website) but the contacts are all gone .. i don't understand why is this so, this was part of the backup. i'm in tears because that is 10 years worth of numbers gone. my whole life, gone, the one thing i didn't think would disappear is completely gone...
why is this happening how to fix this

It says that to download past purchases, they must done under the apple ID that was used to purchase the items. I have an original ID for my iTunes on my computer. At some point I changed my apple ID on the iTouch since that email account was deleted. So I was syncing through iTunes under a different ID then was on my iTouch. Can I do anythng about that so I can check past purchases?
Since the apps aren't in the backup, how do I transfer the apps on my iTouch to my iTunes?

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Restored from backup and all contacts gone???

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