Issue with sync'ing Google contact: how to sync only contacts in My Contact

I tried to sync my Google contacts on my PC to iPhone using iTune: Info->Contacts, select Sync contacts with "Google Contacts" from the drop down list.
However, I am only allowed to select "All contacts" as the choice. The "Selected groups" radio button is grayed out and cannot be selected. As such, all the contact info in my Google contact are synced to my iPhone, which include all the "garbage" contact info Gmail has cached, e.g. all the e-mail addresses from whom you have received e-mails from, including junk e-mails. I only want to sync contacts listed in "My Contacts". But looks like this feature (sync only Selected Groups) is not enabled or yet to be implemented? Can somebody confirm this, i.e. feature not enable vs. some config issue on my part?
Does anybody know if there is a way around it?

OK. I have just figured out how you can sync the contacts only in My Contact subgroup using Google sync over the air.
The procedure is described in detail at Google Help:
Google Sync: Set Up Your iPhone or iPod Touch for Google Sync
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252
I followed the steps there and it synced all my contact in My Contacts subgroup within a minutes.
However, I then edit a few contacts in my Google contacts just to see whether it will be synced automatically to my iPhone. So far after about 5 min, it hasn't happened.
So I am wondering how often it gets updated (or pushed) and if there are other settings I can twig this (I do have the setting Fetch New Data set to Push)?

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