Can't sync iPhone Notes?

Question

What could be my problem: I'm trying to sync Notes on my new iPhone 3GS to my iMac, and it doesn't seem to work ...
After I enter 2 new Notes on the iPhone, I put the iPhone in its dock and do a sync in iTunes via USB. At that time I get a Sync Alert message on the iMac screen that says, "Syncing with Eric's iPhone will change more than 5% of your notes on this computer." Below that I see Information that says I am adding 2 Notes, modifying 0, and deleting 0. That is absolutely correct. When I click on Show Details in that alert window on the iMac, I see the contents of my new Notes. So I click on the Sync Notes button and it looks as if the syncing of Notes is actually happening: iTunes duly says, "Syncing notes with 'Eric's iPhone" ... ". Yet when I look at Notes (under REMINDERS in the Mail sidebar) in the Mail application on the iMac, I do not see any of the Notes from the iPhone.
Nor do I see, on the iPhone, any of the Notes I have created in Mail on the iMac. The behavior I am seeing makes it look like Notes syncing is in fact taking place, but Notes in Mail on the iMac is not the place to/from which Notes on the iPhone are being synced. Yet I don't know where else on the iMac to look for my synced notes. Anyone know what I'm missing here? Thanks.

Answer 1

I figured out what to do to get all my Notes to sync between my iPhone and my iMac (including to/from MobileMe).
If you have a like problem in syncing Notes (or any other item that you intend to sync), the main thing is to read and follow the instructions in
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1627
which is called "Mac OS X v10.5, v10.6: Resetting the SyncServices folder." (This is the first hit you see in Google for "reset mac sync services.")
If you, like me, are running Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard on your Mac, the key thing is to:
1. Open iSync.
2. Choose Preferences from the iSync menu.
3. Click Reset Sync History.
There are different instructions for Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard.
I didn't actually have to re-enable my iPhone's sync settings in iTunes or the sync settings under MobileMe in Preferences. Both sets of sync preferences were the same as before. But when I went ahead and synced my iPhone, and again when I synced MobileMe, I got a number of warning messages on my iMac screen telling me I had to decide whether to Merge the notes from each of devices or sources ... which I in fact did. (I also got some warnings indicating that whatever was doing the merging needed access to my Keychain, which I always allowed.)
After all was said and done, I had a fully merged set of all my Notes in Mail.app on the iMac and also in Notes on the iPhone (and, I believe, in MobileMe).