Trouble managing contacts/retrieving archived address book

Sorry if something similar has already been posted, but any help would be greatly appreciated!
Bought an iPhone yesterday. After the initial address book sync, I realized that I didn't need many of the contacts, and manually deleted them from my iPhone. Today I set up additional groups in my address book, and then checked only 3 of these in options to sync with the iPhone. I created an archive of my address book and then synced with the iPhone.
By syncing, everything that I deleted on the iPhone was deleted from my computer's address book. When I try to import the archived address book, it asks me twice if I want to replace, and then only shows one card and no groups (the card shown seems random, it changes every time).
Anyway, is there any way to retrieve the deleted contacts, either from my iPhone or computer? Help!

After the initial sync with a supported address book application on your computer, the sync process for contacts is a bi-directional or true sync process with the supported address book application on your computer.
When you created the Address Book archive with the Address Book on your Mac - at the Address Book menu bar you went to File > Export and selected Address Book Archive?
If so, your entire Address Book should have been archived. When you go to File > Import > Address Book Archive and select the Address Book Archive that you recently exported, only one contact is available?

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