Where's all my contacts gone?

Just installed the latest updater - restarted and all my contact have gone!
So I tried syncing with the .mac server and only 9 items are available on there of a possible 358 entries - what's happened.?
I have another machine which has it's full number of contacts - do I dare try to re-sync that address book with the .mac server or am I at risk of loosing all those contacts as well?
Any clues or suggestions please...
Regards Richard

Do you use Backup? If you do, use Backup to do just that with the information on your other machine.
Once the contacts are safely backed-up, sync your contacts with .Mac, however do not merge them. Have your machine completely replace your contacts online.
Once done try re-syncing the first machine. Now do the reverse of the first and have .Mac replace the contact data on your Mac. Do not merge. Now see if you have all your contacts on your Mac.
If something goes wrong you will always have the contacts backed-up.

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