Contacts Name Order Reverting

Hello!
I have a client that currently is running an old and very out of date SBS 2003 server that hosts their Exchange & AD.  We have convinced them to upgrade but are looking about three months out for that to happen.  In the meantime they have a new
COO.  This COO has around 7,000 contacts.  Many of those come from her gmail contacts list.  The problem is, we import the PST with all of her contacts, everything shows properly for awhile,  They should show as last name, first name.  After
about two hours of the names being correct they automatically become first/last.  Even worse, going into the contact shows the option "Last, First"  Clicking save from there corrects the name but correcting a few thousands errors every
few hours or even re-importing the PST every few hours is not feasible.
We have attempted to recreate the mailbox, recreate the AD profile, remove all Google Outlook plug-ins, etc.  Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?  It has completely baffled me.  I know this is an old server but it's all
I have to work with regarding this client for the next few months.
(Yes, I know this is probably the wrong forum but as there is no SBS 2003 forum, and yes, I know that this server is no longer supported but there is no out-of-date section on the forums so I have no idea where to place this thread)

Unfortunaltely your phone has only one name field (no separate last name and first name field) and PC Sync combines the names from Outlook in First Last order and that cannot be unfortunately changed.
If you insert a name to phone name field, there is no way Pc Sync could know is the insertion done First Last or Last First and it syncs thus to Outlook First name field everything.
This is how it has been with old Nokia phones which do not have separate Last name First name fields (since Nokia 6210) and PC Sync from the beginning and changing it in one release to Last name First name order would create duplicates to each phone that has been previously synced with earlier PC Suite release.
With very new Nokia phones and all Nokia smart phones there is a separate first name and last name field and those phones are of course synced acoordingly with Outlook and the problem does not exist there.

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