I merged my skype and MSN Accounts.

I have lost all but 15 MSN contacts out of about 100.

I have contacted Skype and they have unmerged the two accounts.
How can I get my MSN contact list back?    
All contact info is gone including groups. How can I retrieve them? It has been at least one week and I have not received a reply.
Evidently I was automatically switched to Outlook without my permission. In so doing I have all the options down the left hand side I formerly had - except Contacts. That is missing. Without it I do not have my bank of contact addresses to send email to. Where is the bank of Contacts supposed to appear?
I recently upgraded from Windows Live Essentials to Windows Essentials 2012.  Now I can NOT seem to find out how to search/find an old message (i.e. by sender, recipient, subject, content, etc.).  I see the FIND button, but it only shows the TEXT search;  The "message" portion is greyed out and does NOT work.  Step by step, how do I access the message search box/feature?

Also, how do I accessmy CONTACTS for editing and the creation of groups?  In the old WLM version it had a "GO TO" menu.  I can't find a way to get to my CONTACTS list do the group management in 2012.

Your help would be appreciated.  Thank you.

Bob Woolf, aka Olde GreyWoolf
If I delete someone do I disappear from their contacts and can they see if I am on line still!!!

 I accidently clicked on "filter contacts" and now all my contact are gone...help!

How do I manage my contact page? I can add new contacts bu cannot edit or delete anything that is there now. This is extremely frustrating and I am sorry they changed something that was working so easily before.  HELP!
How do I see who is in my hotmail contact groups and can I print them off