Address Book not recognised by iTunes

My Address Book database refuses to sync through iTunes to my iPhone. In iTunes (v9.0.2) in the Info pane for the iPhone, the Address Book database list of groups doesn't show (it's just empty), and the Address Book doesn't sync to the iPhone so the iPhone has no contacts in it until this is fixed. It's a problem for me as my entire business runs on this data in the iPhone - over 5,000 contacts in all.
There seems so be some disconnection between iTunes and the Address Book data.
This problem seems to have arisen after updating from OS 10.6.1 > 10.6.2 and then immediately from iTunes 9.0.1 > 9.0.2.
Any help much appreciated.

I phoned Apple under AppleCare and after about 30 minutes trying various things established that I needed to "Reset sync history…" in iSync preferences. Here's how:
1. Create a folder on desktop in which you will store files to delete later (keep them until problem solved). Call it (let's say) Keeps.
2. Go to Home> Library> Application Support> iSync> SyncLocalCopy> everything - carry all files to the Keeps folder on desktop.
3. Go to Home> Library> Application Support> AddressBook> everything EXCEPT folder named Metadata (or any file carrying that name) - carry all files to the Keeps folder on desktop.
4. Search in Home folder for file: com.apple.isync.plist - carry all files to the Keeps folder on desktop.
5. Restart Mac.
6. Launch iSync. Go to iSync Preferences and click the button at the bottom of the prefs pane "Reset sync history…". Quit iSync when it's done.
7. Restart Mac.
8. Launch iTunes, plug in iPhone. Don't click to sync. Let it go through its setup process (this is NOT syncing - took about 30 seconds for in to do whatever it was doing). Quit iTunes.
9. Restart Mac.
10. Launch iTunes - the list of AddressBook data should now be there. If not then quit and relaunch again.
Sync iPhone.
It worked perfectly for me. I hope it works for you too.

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