Contact folder in iPhone

I've been having problems syncing my iPhone to my address book on my mac. Ive recently purchased an iPhone and am currently updating all my contact list & entering new ones.
As a member of mobileme I am using the option of updating on the contacts on the net as the progamme is set up for.
Now heres where is seems to get buggy.
Ive put on a folder called Home which I putting all my needed household numbers in. Now on mobileme online it shows the aformentioned folder with the relevant names & numbers. However on the iphone in address it only shows the folder and no contacts?
Now last week when I made this folder on my mac it never showed up on my iphone. (yes I did re-sync mac & phone)
I have re-synced at various times during the day, other contacts behaving correctly straight away, except with this folder called Home??
Anyone come across anything like this before?

Thanks for your advise with this, I will re-set these settings when I get home tonight after work and let you know how I got on.
I assume where your talking about turning off my contact settings this is on the mobileme section of my mac & not mobileme online, as I dont have any options on there to do any type of setting re-boot.
Incedently I started a new folder called House and put the contacts in and they ported over to my phone straight away. I then deleted the Home folder online, but its still showing up on my iphone along with the new one I created.
Strange it must not like the name Home??
Anyway I will give this a go when I get in.
Thank you for replying to my thread.

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