My iPhone 4S won't sync with Address Book or iCal on my Mac

My iPhone 4S is full of events on my Calendar and contacts in my Contacts app. They sync nicely with iCloud, so I can access them online.
However, I'd also like to sync them with iCal (4.04) and Address Book on my Mac (10.6.8). Both iCal and Address book only give me the option to sync with MobileMe, which doesn't exist anymore. I can't login to MobileMe on those two applications with my iCloud address either.
iTunes gives me the option to overwrite the data on my iPhone with that on my Mac. I don't want that; I want to overwrite the data on my Mac with that on my iPhone.
Do I need to upgrade to Lion to get these older applications on my Mac to play nice with iCloud?
Any solutions?

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