Sync wiped out my contact info...need recovery help

I just realized that my last sync which occurred a few days ago seemed to wipe out a ton of my address book data (stuff like contact photos and notes).
I suspect it's because it replaced my Address Book contacts with my Entourage/Exchange contacts which doesn't contain those bits of info. It used to work the other way around, where I maintained the "master" in address book, but now it's all gone and I'm ******.
I did check /Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook.data.previous, but it contains the same missing info so perhaps it got wiped out prior to my last sync. Do any other "previous" versions get stored anywhere?
Hopefully someone can help...this *****!! I've lost a ton of data and am looking for ways to get it back

ARRRGGG!!!! All my birthday data is wiped out too. Great. I don't have this info stored anywhere else. How could this happen?

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