Can't move contacts from 9000 to 9800

Question

My old BB 9000, or more likely, DM 6.0 is holding my contacts on my old phone hostage!
I got my 9800 yesterday and tried to run through the "Switch device" wizard. All looks good, no errors, everything working... then I open Contacts and it is empty. Look at my old device, everything is still there. Try syncing over and over, no luck. Try backing up "All contacts" on 9000 then restoring just that to 9800, doesn't work.
I think the problem is that on the 9000, I see three "contact lists" - two named Desktop and one with my gmail address. It actually seems like the ones associated with the gmail address are moving okay - except that only one contact is associated with that account! The rest seem to be randomly split between the two other Desktop entries.
I've tried everything I can think of to manually backup/retrieve the contacts out of the old phone, but no matter how I try to sync, either I only get addresses associated with the gmail account or when I restore what appears to be a "complete" backup, all the contacts disappear.
A side note, I have no desire/need to keep these contacts separate so if there is a way to merge them together to magically solve the problem I'll gladly do it - unfortunately KB entries that talk about this all reference ludicrously old versions of software, so I'm just not sure how to do it with DM6 and the 9800.
This is ridiculously frustrating. Swapping devices has been such a breeze and a major plus for me in the past, who would have thought that RIM would make it more difficult/worse?
Let me know if I can provide any more info!
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Answer 1

Okay, 3 days it took me to fix this, pretty poor experience in general RIM - I hope someone is watching. Here was the workaround I found, based on the process presented here: http://www.berryreview.com/2010/06/03/faq-duplicate-desktop-or-unknown-contact-list-databases-found-...
Initial problem - Multiple "Desktop" address book entries on my old phone, which apparently caused issues when using the "Switch Device" wizard in DM6.
Resolution:
1) From original device, take a backup and select only the "Address Book - All" contacts.
2) Download ABC Amber Blackberry Editor (Why do I need a 3rd party tool to use my new phone!?) as mentioned in the article.
3) Open the .ipd file that contains the Address Book - All entries, do a Save As and put these in a new file - they are now simply part of the primary Address Book.
4) This is where I deviate from the article above - restoring this backup to my new phone still wouldn't work, but restoring it to my OLD phone did. So that's what I did.
5) I then re-activated my old phone on BES and used wireless sync to sync the address book to the server.
6) Back to the new phone, activate it on BES and turn on wireless sync and voila, I have my addresses on my new phone... FINALLY.
The obvious answer here is "Well if you'd had wireless sync working properly in the first place this probably would have been avoided" which is entirely true. However, as this is a personal device that I happen to use at work for e-mail only, the device itself has always been the source of my address information and syncing it to my work account has been low on my priority list. I figured that having DM configured to do weekly backups (which still happen every time I plug in my phone, no matter whether a week has passed or not - yet another issue with crappy DM6) would be enough of a protection for my information.
Hopefully someone finds this info useful and doesn't have to suffer through 3 days of hair pulling like I did.