Syncing with exchange on the iphone

i was about to sync with exchange (for my work outlook email), when my iphone prompted me, indicating that "syncing with exchange will remove your existing contacts from you iphone"
my question is.....is this prompt referring to all the contacts i spent hours manually typing into my iphone from my old cell phone or something else??
thanks!

When turning on over the air syncing for an Exchange Account or a MobileMe Account, all existing contact info available on your iPhone will be erased and replaced with online contact info for the Exchange Account or MobileMe account - per the warning message provided.

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Message was edited by: Ronald Veenbrink

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