Contacts no longer Sync to iPhone

Until yesterday I never had any problems syncing contacts with my iPhone. Now it doesn't matter what I do, I can't get my contacts to Sync. This problem started after I signed up for .Mac and did my first Sync using .Mac.
I can Sync changes from my iPhone to my AddressBook but not from AddressBook to iPhone. Changes made in AddressBook do not sync to .Mac either.
I have reset Sync data in iSync and tried a number of things that are mentioned here, yet nothing works. I have also reset my phone.
If I delete the AddressBook folder in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (so that I end up with the default 2 entries), those will Sync to the iPhone. However, restoring from the backup to AddressBook (which does load all my contacts back) will not Sync to the iPhone.
In the log I get the following:
Nov 1 11:43:09 nicolas-cianca AppleMobileDeviceHelper[1360]: exception while performing selector allClients on server: NSInvalidSendPortException [NSMachPort sendBeforeDate:] destination port invalid
Nov 1 11:43:09 nicolas-cianca [0x0-0xca0ca].com.apple.iTunes[1359]: 2007-11-01 11:43:09.022 AppleMobileDeviceHelper[1360:807] exception while performing selector allClients on server: NSInvalidSendPortException [NSMachPort sendBeforeDate:] destination port invalid
Nov 1 11:43:12 nicolas-cianca [0x0-0xca0ca].com.apple.iTunes[1359]: Created child to sync device with pid 1459...
Nov 1 11:43:32 nicolas-cianca AddressBookSync[1460]: AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x5e42080 <x-coredata://50D3999F-489C-4116-8AD2-60109DC8A8D3/ABCDPostalAddress/p23104>'
Nov 1 11:43:32 nicolas-cianca com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[1457]: 2007-11-01 11:43:32.742 AddressBookSync[1460:10b] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x5e42080 <x-coredata://50D3999F-489C-4116-8AD2-60109DC8A8D3/ABCDPostalAddress/p23104>'
Nov 1 11:43:41 nicolas-cianca [0x0-0xca0ca].com.apple.iTunes[1359]: Sending final status from child helper tool back to parent...
Obviously there is an entry in my AddressBook that is causing iSync/.Mac/iTunes syncing to choke, but there is no way to figure out which one. I have 4300+ contacts.

I was able to fix this but only because I have been in the habit of making a regular backup from AddressBook using the File->Export->AddressBook Archive. I got burned by a bug in Mail that would cause Addressbook to wipe out it's database. I reported that bug to Apple and they confirmed it and let me know that they fixed it in Leopard (which they did).
The problem here is that a record is corrupted, but unfortunately there isn't an easy way to determine which record that is. The log only provides the ID (look like this: 50D3999F-489C-4116-8AD2-60109DC8A8D3) which doesn't identify the actual corrupted record and I have too many dirty records to try to isolate the bad one. In my case going to back an older copy was able to solve the problem.
Assuming that this was recently working correctly and you haven't made many changes to existing records, you can try this:
Create a Smart Group and and select "Card" "has changed in" X "day". X would be the number of days you want to display.
Then click on the group and the cards that you have recently entered will appear. This may help you isolate the one that is corrupted. It would be helpful if AddressBook had a means to locate records by ID or at least provide the name of the contact in the logs.
This is a very annoying issue because iSync will fail silently and unless you look at the Console it will appear to be syncing for .Mac and the iPhone (or any other device that uses iSync). I went for 2 days before I realized that my contacts in Addressbook where NOT syncing with my iPhone but those that I entered on the iPhone did sync.

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