Synchronization issue (apps and contacts affected)

I have a Verizon iPhone 4, and my understanding has been that iTunes doesn’t back up contacts. So I tried to back up my contacts to my Google account by going to devices > info > synch contacts with google contacts. I hadn't changed any settings for synching apps, I hadn't even gone to that tab, but iTunes decided to randomly start removing apps from my phone. Can anyone explain why this might've happened? Is it because I forgot to “transfer purchases” beforehand? I don’t understand what synching contacts had to do with the third party apps, though.
Next I re-synched the apps and they went back on the phone in a different order, but I unchecked the “sync contacts” and “sync apps”options so that it didn’t automatically sync my Google contacts every time.That actually wiped out ALL the contacts on my phone. What can I do to avoid deleting all my phone contacts and apps but setting it so that it won’t automatically sync them everytime I hook up my phone to iTunes? My intention with this whole thing was just to back up the contacts the one time and take out the Google account afterwards. I didn't want to change any sync settings, but now I feel like I am stuck with these settings or else I will delete everything again.
If anyone can offer any insight, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

I have the same problem with Active Sync.
At the moment I have only 4 contacts out of the 1500+ I normally have. And no idea how to initiate the sync. I need to make a call, but cannot make it because the contact does not exist anymore.
This happened to me a few times already. Previously I tried to restart the device, but still it takes hours before the contacts have been synced.

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