Steps:
1. Before World Merge -- have a nice friends list, no problem.
2. After World Merge -- Friends list empty but one name.
3. Several days after world merge -- Friends list still empty except that one name. I then start to re-add from memory
4. 20/04/2012 -- Friends list now contains a list of friends... All is good (but previous ones are still gone)
5. 21/04/2012 -- Friends list now contains the friends I had BEFORE world Merge.. and all the new ones I added are gone.
6. 22/04/2012 -- Friends list still contains pre-merge friends names, and none of the post-merge additions I made.

I am hoping that this was supposed to happen (I would rather the loss was expected then it to be unexpected).

If there is a way to recover my friends list, that would be good. If there is a way to back-up that would also be good.

Is the Friends List information stored locally or on the server?


Thank you.