Why won't iphone sync mac address book contacts?

I've got an IP4 and a MAC G5 both with most recent software updates. At around the turn of 2012 I started "losing" new contacts from my phone, It transpired that the phone and computer were conflicting some how and contacts were not being updated or synced. When I tried to manually input these new details to Address I am told that the Database could not be opened as it is corrupted.
How do I resolve this?
Evmarnel
9 April 2012

Okay, if Entourage is syncing to iCal fine, then the problem is not with Entourage, but with the iPhone. (How sync works--Entourage sends it to a central location, and the iPhone and iCal pick it up from there. So you know E'rage is getting it to the central location fine, but for some reason the iPhone is not picking it up).
In which case things like reset/restore the iPhone might help (read the iPhone manual on troubleshooting and on syncing, and backup the iPhone, and export iCal and E'rage data to an archive before futzing around too much). Reset/Restore are different from a one-way sync that overwrites data, which you might try first---I think you can tell it just overwrite a certain type of data--the settings are down at the very bottom of the Info panel in iTunes 8.
However, since E'rage should be irrelevant to the problem, you should also search/ask re general syncing problems with the iPhone.
iPhone manual:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iphoneuserguide.pdf
also bookmarked in Mobile Safari.

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