Why are contacts disappearing from iCloud?

I was using a friend's computer to send an email and logged onto icloud.com. I was typing an email to a contact who I knew was in my address book, but for some reason the to field in mail wasn't able to find that contact. I then went to the address book on icloud and again could not find the contact there. I had my phone handy, so I went on my iPhone and I could see plain as day that that I had that contact on my phone. And then after I accessed that contact on my phone, it magically appeared in icloud.
Wierd right?? but the wierdest thing of all is that contact had been in my phone for at least a month and it was also in my computer address book, so what is going on??
It seems like there is something really wrong with the syncing mechanism and I wonder if I did not have my iPhone handy would I have been able to find that address??
Anybody else with the same problems?? Any solutions??
Thanks

I get the exact same behavior. It is maddening. I find if I use the "sources" function, it happens more. I ended up wresting with it via the album view and it seemed better, but much less convenient. I've had this occur on the iPod app on my iPad, as well as on my iPod touch. Editting playlists is very flaky.
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do you sync your contacts with an application in your computer? or use iCloud?
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