Contacts missing on phone, intact in Address Book.

I recently bought a new Macbook Pro and did a "data transfer" with the setup assistant from the older 4 year old Macbook to the new one. Everything appears to be fine and identical to the old computer -- until my first iPhone sync.
Everything is syncing fine, except my contacts. My 300+ contacts are now missing from my phone (except for 4 entries). They all still exist in the Address Book. All other iPhone syncing is working fine. I do not use any external address book sources (MobileMe, Google, etc).
I have tried:
- repeated syncs, enabling and disabling Address Book sync
- soft reset on iPhone
I am at wits end about this - a phone without contacts is not useful!
For reference:
OS 10.6.3
iPhone 3GS 3.1.3
iTunes 9.1

Bingo! That appears to have fixed it.
I would not have thought to go into iSync, given that the iPhone is not listed as a device there. This should be an option within iTunes somewhere as well.

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