Address Book Notes is deleting data....

I've used OS X for years and never been stumped like this before. I use Address Book, have it synced with MobileMe and also synced to my iPhone. Today I was adding notes to a Contact under the note field and the notes kept disappearing. Strangely it does NOT do it for all contact, just certain ones. Almost like Address Book Sync's to MobileMe and then undoes everything I wrote. My Address book is not published. Any ideas on what might cause this?

Just in case anyone else has this issue, here was the resolve...
50 or so of my contacts had mobileme sync conflicts due to mobileme, my iphone and my macbook getting out of sync. Apparently the contact on my mac were invisibly flagged by the OS as conflicted, so anytime I made changes, they would magically revert back to what was on mobileme. Once I cleaned up the conflicts, everything worked right again.

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