So I spent somw time and merged contacts on my N900 as I also use gtalk and wanted to merge my gtalk contacts with my regular contacts.. however, i just noticed that they have been unmerged again.. is there a simple fix for this?

Yeah, I get this too. The issue for me might be to do with my contacts sync going on via http://nuevasync.com/ but I'm not sure.

Are you using any kind of contacts sync service?

I was syncing contacts using Nuevasync also and thought that was the issue. But it looks like if you log out and log back into the IM, your contacts will be un-merged.

I'm trying to verify this now.

There is a bug reported for it, please vote.

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6859

I've merged lots of Gtalk and skype contacts into my phone ones. I've logged out and in several times too and no issues. I don't use @sync service just direct to servers. Have any of you modified your contacts online but not via the phone? If so then that might be the trigger.

Mine haven't unmerged, but the merged info wont sync with google contacts. Any idea how I can save the merged contacts? just export them? Hate the idea of having to merge them all over if I reset the phone or something.

Example: I had to merge them all again when I uninstalled butterfly for haze, even though I synced with google contacts beforehand.

Mine does the same thing using msn. I would really love for ones that I delete to stay deleted too. They keep coming back.

You can vote for this bug here: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6859