Sync added contacts from iPhone to Address Book

As I am out and about I add new contacts on my iPhone. But when I sync with my Mac they are ignored. This contrasts with other mobile phone suppliers who do a 'sync merge' as standard updating both the phone and PC with added and amended contacts since the last sync. How can I get iTunes to execute this most basic of functions?

I posted earlier today, asking how to get my contacts to sync both ways, or IF they can sync both ways, but so far, no one has replied. I updated my contacts on my imac (10.6.7) and when I try and sync my iphone4, it tells me if I go forward with the sync, it will effect at least 25% of my contacts on my computer, so the iphone, with the older contacts, is going to overwrite those in my address book on my mac.
I have been searching other posts to see if I can find the answer, and found this post here. So I am wondering if resetting the sync history would help me? I went to isync and clicked on it but the message is a bit unclear, to me anyway ;-) It sounds like resetting the isync history will cause me to loose some information? Can you clarify? Or help me sort out how to get the updated contacts from my mac's address book into contacts on my iphone4?
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3/28/08 2:45:54 AM AddressBookSync[315] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x1a02fc0 <x-coredata://2123D5A6-CBBA-4900-B49B-0DDF0F8195A8/ABCDPostalAddress/p68>'
3/28/08 2:45:54 AM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[176] 2008-03-28 02:45:54.040 AddressBookSync[315:10b] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x1a02fc0 <x-coredata://2123D5A6-CBBA-4900-B49B-0DDF0F8195A8/ABCDPostalAddress/p68>'

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