Address Book to Exchange 2000 syncing problem

Good morning all, my instincts tell me this is an issue on the exchange server but my hopes are someone clever will see something so here we go:
Address Book syncing to exchage had been working flawlessly with a larger exchange contact list (~1000). Then it just stopped. But only for one user (the only one who needs it).
Other than the manditory MS security updates, the only change to this user's windows environment has been the introduction of Office 2003 on his desktop PC.
I have created an additional acct on the mac and still no luck. As a test I altered the address book > exchange sync settings for different exchange users and everything worked on both thte new & old mac account. Therefore it's on the exchange/AD server or possible some system level setting specific to this user on the mac (sounds like a stretch, huh)...
No changes have been made to Outlook Web Access and the user's active directory account has not been altered--syncing just stopped around the time of 10.4.7 & outlook 2003 on the PC.
Any MS/Exchange/Mac gurus out there with a clue? Thanks.
Erin
PBG4 12" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Not much you can do then. There are rumors that Address Book and iCal will support ActiveSync in Snow Leopard but for now the only desktop based Exchange client for the Mac is Entourage.
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