Address Book Contacts Out of Order

You will have to transfer your contacts one at a time. To export a contact's phone number to a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card in a BlackBerry smartphone, complete the following steps:

1. Open the Address Book application from the BlackBerry smartphone Home screen.
2. Click the contact that you want to transfer to your SIM card.
3. Highlight the phone number you would like to transfer.
4. Display the menu on the BlackBerry smartphone.
5. Click Copy to SIM Phone Book.
6. Make sure that you are attempting to transfer the correct informaton to your SIM card.
7. Display the menu on the BlackBerry smartphone, and click Save.

you have 2 options. you can load them directly in your "address book" by going into your address book, menu button (bb icon left of trackball), select "New Address" and enter the info.
Option 2 , would be going into your address book, select "SIM phone book" and enter the info there.
Keep in mind, when you use the SIM phone book option, you can only enter their name and phone number, and after you are done, you have to import your SIM contacts to your address book.
Any contacts saved using the SIM option, will stay on your SIM card.
Any contacts using the Address Book option, will only remain on the phone, and not on your sim card.
ho[pe this helps!

go to the phone book settings then change the memory in use. for eg. from phone memory to sim memory (or) from sim memory to phone memory...........

Click on main menu,select address book,click menu,select filter,if there is a check mark on business cancel it and now you will get all your contacts.

To change it to personal contacts follow the bellow mentioned steps:
1) Select adress book
2) Press menu
3) Select filter
4) Check on personal
5) and you can enter ur contacts under personal contacts.

this link tells you how to put it back in the correct way...

http://jsdoodnauth.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/blackberry-pearl-trackball-stopped-working/

very good explanation includes pictures

Reset the phone by removing the battery for 10 seconds. That should release the application freeze.

try searching the contact list with letter 'a' then click on the first contact then select 'delete lookup' then repeat this all through the alphabet and it should clear the contacts list.

go to menu and then contacts hit option and the copy from sim to phone and you will find all your contacts