Contacts made unavailable by Microsoft

Windows LiveMail has eliminated almost all my contacts and the groupings I use for sending out group emails,  Instructions to restore through the 'people' site gave me a jumble of everyone from FB and phone. LiveMail Contacts has changed on my screen. Now I'm supposed to have a Best Friends category, but nothing I want.   I can't find a way to restore my email contacts to the LiveMail Contacts list, or group them. Now it is all a jumble. I do not want my LiveMail Contacts mixed up with others. I did not ask Microsoft to change what I get through LiveMail, but they did. How can I use LiveMail to make my own groups and keep the contacts separate from all other apps?