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Big D, are you using XP on your pc? If so, if all the contacts on your pc were written over when you used active sync, go into system tools\system restore on your pc and look for a restore point before you installed the new active sync from MS. There are normally system checkpoints created regularly and with any software install. Just restore your pc to a time before the active sync install, and hopefully your contacts will reappear.

PIM.vol is on of those files you can't delete but you may be able to rename it using total commander and then dump the copy in.

For future use, try PIMbackup. I use it and have it set to backup every night at 2 AM so this can't ever happen again (lost my contacts once...very frustrating!).