[emkorial]

Well, I kinda lucked out, it turns out I never wiped the SIM card on my old phone I had before my mogul, so I was able to recover about 75% of them from that. Still a pain.

I had to import them into outlook, sync them with the phone, clean them up on the phone, then use PPCPimBacku top back them up, delete the commection on my computer, delete outlook, set up a brand new connection to the phone, sync (which wiped out all my contacts again, as I thought it would), then restore from backup. Now I have my contacts on my phone, and they are in no way linked to my computer at all, so there's no losing them through f'in activesync. I tested it out by deleteing the connection and starting a new one again, syncing, and my contacts survived this time.

Thanks goodness for PPCPIimBackup, that's some nice software.