Not sync or display middle names?

I find it annoying that the iPhone displays FULL names of contacts -- First Middle Last. It's okay in Contacts, but on things like the Recent Calls list, the middle names consume a large amount of the space for the name, so I can't even read the last name on the list.
Short of removing middle names from their records in my Mac Address Book, is there any way to prevent iPhone from displaying or synchronizing middle names?
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I originally thought of doing that, and it'd be easy enough to write such a script. But as I mentioned, I'd rather find a solution OTHER than deleting the data from Address Book, where it's actually valuable and useful to store it. I just want to be able to customize how names appear on iPhone's listings, OR, be able to customize whether that particular field is synchronized to MobileMe.
Thanks anyway.

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