Address Book & iPhone rearranging contact fields by themselves

I've been searching for a solution to my issues but haven't been able to do so, neither on any forums or anywhere in the internet.
I've got iPhone 4 iOs 5.0.1, Mac OS 10.5.8 and Address 4.1.2 and I have 2 problems;
1) Whenever I try to rearrange the fields of one my contacts in the Address Book, I can do so during "Edit card" mode. As soon as I hit "Save", everything is back to square one.
I mingled with Address Book/Preferences/Template but no solution. Still, almost each of my contacts have different fields and different sortings which are not in line with my templates.
2) When I sync my phone via iTunes, things get even more complicated. My phone rearranges the fields with different templates and they vary from contact to contact.
I must say that the main problem is with phone numbers as I only have Work & Home for the address fields and they just work fine.
However, with the contact numbers, instead of the mixture described above, I'd like to have a standard template in the same following order such as;
Work
Home
mobile
mobile 2
etc...
and be able to use that very template all over.
Can anyone give a hand please?

I actually just posted this issue as a question before I saw yours, the thread is titled "GLITCH ALERT! iPhone 5 contacts syncing"
I experienced the same thing on my iPhone 5, black 32 GB.
I synced my contacts today and the order the information was displayed was randomized, in that it was not the order I chose, this affected the contacts app on both the iPhone and my laptop.  For example, I have my phone number fields in this order: home, mobile, work; my e-mail address fields as: home, mobile (for text), mobile (for pics), work; I have a similar orders for URL fields as well.
On any given syncing session, for each contact, either all the fields within all categories will be in a totally different order, or some of the categories and their fields will be intact while one or two will be randomized. For example the order for my phone numbers might be randomized as work, home, mobile, NOT as I indicated above.
I spoke with Apple Tech Support and the particular tech said this is the first he’s heard of this problem, and that in syncing, the display of entries on the laptop app and on the phone should match.  He suggested as a solution to back up the iPhone and restore the phone to the factory settings then restore the backed up files.  They also advised they would alert the tech engineers.

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