My contact list has been high jacked! 

When I bought a new PC a couple of years ago I thought Windows Live Mail which came with Win 7 was simply an application to handle e-mails and a calendar  very much like Eudora which I had been using for a decade.

So, I have been using it as such fairly happily for the last couple of years with my own domain-based e mail address.

I also have a Hotmail address which I rarely use.  Recently my son linked his Blackberry address book to my Hotmail account, which wiped my Hotmail contacts and replaced them with his contacts. 

This wasn’t a big problem, but somehow it also wiped and replaced all the contacts in my account on Windows Live Mail, which is a problem.

I don’t understand how this could happen.  As far as I know there is no link between my Windows Live Mail account and Hotmail.

I am now wondering just exactly what is Windows Live Mail? Is it a stand-alone application, or is it somehow linked in the background to Hotmail?

Is there any way of getting my contacts back?