Changing address book field name with automator

can anyone advise how to change a field in multiple contacts using automator, ie i need to change either the 'work mobile', or 'home mobile' field to the simple 'mobile' so as to fix the phone book error i now have on my sony p900 since the recent 10.4.6 update rebuilt the phone version of my addressbook,
the mobile now will not recognise the changed fields as mobile phones but as land lines, making the sending of sms etc difficult.
As i have over 400 contacts this is a pain indeed....
any genius scripters out there who can both help and explain?
thanks
simon

Hi,
According to your description, the name of a address list container is changed through Exchange management tool. However, Outlook clients still show the old name.
In this case, I recommend you recreate a new profile to check the result. I test it and the address list updates in Outlook client only after I recreate the profile.
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.
Thanks,
Angela Shi
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