Syncing contacts and calendar and losing all prior info

I have the original iPhone and had my iCal synced to it. Since then my computer crashed so my iPhone has been my main source and it hasn't been synced, but it has been used as my primary contact and calendar. With that being said, I was adding an additional email account (Microsoft Exchange) to my phone and chose to sync the calendar and contacts with it as well. When I did that it completely deleted my prior contacts and calendar that were on the phone. Is there a way to get those back? I tried to restore to a prior back up to see if that would help (from another Windows based computer I've been using), but it said my last back up was corrupt so it couldn't restore.
Any clue on if it is even possible to get my contacts and calendars back?
Also... there should be something that says that syncing will make you lose your current info. before syncing. I defintely would not have done it if I knew that was the case.

To Outlook from the iPhone?
Try entering a single entry into Outlook for both contacts and calendars. Then change the sync settings in iTunes so it shows "sync contacts with Outlook" and "sync calendars with Outlook". Hit "Apply" in the lower right!
Good luck!

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