Address book not updating/odd sync issues

I've been fighting with this for about a week now. We are looking to simply have a shared address book for our office. We have one windows XP machine, but we aren't even worried about that at this point. He's actually on a macbook pro, so we'll likely end up running him on parallels eventually. Other then that, its strictly macs with the most up to date versions of the OS. I figured from the literature, it'd be a matter of creating an address book on the server and hitting "share", but reading around, it seems I'm not the only one having issues.
I set up our iCal by creating a user and set up our calendar. I was able to use the "delegation" tab under the accounts preferences to allow all the users in our office to view and edit the calendar. It's a little clunky, but overall not terrible. It works great. Updates come within 10 seconds to everyone.
I figured Address Book would be the same setup, but no such luck. I did the same process, but there isn't an option to delegate. We have three groups of contacts in our Address Book. Customers, Suppliers, and Employees. When I got it all up, one computer would get one group, another's wouldn't' get anything, and someone else might get two of them. If anyone edited anything, no one else got it. Where am I going wrong here?

O.K. I think I know what's wrong - - although I don't know how to fix it.
When I look under Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars, I have two accounts:
a 'MobileMe' account, that has Mail, Contacts, Calendars and Bookmarks listed underneath it in smaller font, and a second account, named 'office', which has only Mail listed underneath.
When I'm syncing, I'm successfully getting any new emails (from my 'office' account on my MacBook Pro), but no new Contacts, etc., are coming across.
I seem to be locked into this mobileme account, which isn't working right. I did check mobileme's 'cloud' page (if that's how you describe it), and my newly added Contacts are there sure enough. They just don't get copied across when I sync.
Is there a way to sync without using mobileme? Or changing my mobileme account so my default account gets new Contacts as well as new mail?
Thanks, malcolm

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