Audiobook playback position sync to iPhone

I've been listening to audiobooks via my iPhone, and I just purchased a little nano to use while exercising. I synced my iPhone to iTunes to get the latest playback position for my audiobook, then synced my new nano to iTunes and added the audiobook, which started playing at the proper position. Nice.
I finished my exercise, synced my nano, and iTunes now has the updated position (I played the book in iTunes to be sure). Then I synced my iPhone to get the latest position on that unit, and it didn't work. It was still way back where it was. Not nice.
How do I get the iPhone to pick up the new playback position of my audiobook?
Mac OS 10.7.2
iTunes 10.5.1
iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1

So I was having the hardest time getting my audible books onto my iPhone and iPad with iTunes 11 and iOS 7. I dragged them into a play list and synced them, but when I looked on the iPhone they did not import.
So what I did to get it to work was to chose the book (Highlight) I wanted to import, then get the information (command + I), then choose Options tab, then change the Media Kind from Audiobook to Music.
Then sync again and it will import to the device.

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