Gmail contacts deleted - very angry

[Dagger969]

When I first bought my hero, I didn't know better. I put in my gmail information, as you have to in the beginning, and it synced with gmail, copying all of my contacts from within gmail to my phone. I didn't want those on my phone because they arent structured properly and it adds too many junky contacts to my phone. I deleted the gmail ones from my phone. It synced with gmail and erased them there too. Lesson learned... don't sync contacts. I had to reset my phone and upon doing so, the first thing I did was remove the tick from "sync contacts". Somehow it still did. So I verified that I had unchecked the contact box and deleted the gmail contacts from my phone. Two days later, all gmail contacts are gone. My phone says that it synced them 20 minutes ago even though there is no check in the box to sync those. WTF IS GOING ON? This is really starting to piss me off.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I don't want any syncing of my contacts! What is on my phone, I want on my phone. What is in my email, I want in my email! This syncing and deleting is BS.