Contacts randomly disappear - Finding solutions!!

[GirlGoneGeek]

I need help with my contact problem!! Someone please save me

What I've noticed recently, more in the last month, is that I can go to my phone to send a text or call someone I know I recently talked to and "poof" they are gone! I have to then re add them in hopes they don't get deleted again. My phone does sync with google on it's own.

What am I missing?

What I have done so far to try and figure it out:

I did go resync my google account as other sites suggested from my phone settings > accounts and sync = still didn't bring back the ones I lost

I did go to google.com and make sure they weren't moved out when I put them into my favorites or groups, nope those I moved to there are still listed in my contact list

WHAT I DID JUST NOW FIND WAS THIS:

for some reason I think the ones disappearing on in the "other" folder when I go into gmail.com

HELP!!!! What have I done to cause this and how do I stop it?