Updated iPhone 3GS to iOS6 and lost all contacts

I updated my iPhone 3GS to the new iOS6 yesterday. It took a while, but everything worked just fine. Today, I tried to do the same to my husband's phone, which is identical to mine. It extracted, but then would not restore. I see the apps that were removed from his phone, as well as the music, in iTunes; but all of his contacts are gone. I've tried every suggestion I can find online, and nothing is helping me locate them. When I right-click on his phone under the Devices header, the drop down doesn't give me the option to restore from backup; it just says Backup. Any help is GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Actually.... contacts are part of an iTunes backup.
You can verify that information here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946
But it seems the issue here is the fact that you can't find how to restore from a previously created backup. There is no button to hit to do so...
You can go to Settings>General>Reset>Erase all content and settings (on your device)
This will restart the setup assistant for you... and as you're going through you can select to restore your device from an iTunes backup.

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