Apple Address Book no longer sync'ing with iPhone

I'm running Leopard Server 10.5.1. Address Book sync with my iPhone is no longer working properly. iTunes is getting Address Book information from someplace other than Address Book. This is what I did to test this theory:
1. deleted all contacts in Address Book
2. deleted ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
3. deleted ~/Library/Caches
4. deleted ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook*.plist
5. in iSync, Reset Sync History
After the above, I logged out and logged back in; fired up iTunes, sync'ed and got a message saying if I continue the sync, there will be a greater than 5% change to the info on my iPhone - in the dialog box, it listed all the entries in my Address Book prior to me deleting them (oddly, all the contact names are there and all notes for contacts are there but the phone #s, email addresses, web pages, etc. are gone). I verified Address Book by opening it and none of the listed contacts are there, so, where is iTunes getting that data? Also, the Info tab in iTunes shows groups in the Contacts section that were all deleted.
Can someone offer a solution?

OK, I know why this is happening now. This is what I'm seeing in the logs when I do a sync from iTunes:
1/30/08 8:39:29 AM AddressBookSync[86028] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: can't remove object at /Network/Servers/trantor.tyrann.net/Homes/abid/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/clientdata/633a1ba25cb8241bbde44acb603ee1e822cde772/ bbb82163e3ac8d890906c3d29deb27e226048c30: Permission denied
1/30/08 8:39:29 AM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[86003] 2008-01-30 08:39:29.345 AddressBookSync[86028:10b] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: can't remove object at /Network/Servers/trantor.tyrann.net/Homes/abid/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/clientdata/633a1ba25cb8241bbde44acb603ee1e822cde772/ bbb82163e3ac8d890906c3d29deb27e226048c30: Permission denied
The permission on these files and the directory they're in is read & write access to me and no access for everyone else. So what should the correct permissions be? I have full access to create and remove files so why am I getting permission errors?

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