Contacts no longer syncing with iPhone

I am using an iphone and syncing with my macbook laptop with OS 10.6.2. I have it set up to automatically sync my contacts, calendar, notes, and bookmarks when i connect it to the laptop. I have itunes set to manually sync music.
About a week ago, my contacts stopped syncing up. I have not changed any of the settings. Now, if i edit or add a contact to my macbook, it does not show up on my iPhone, and the same thing vice versa. All of the other functions (calendar, notes, etc) are syncing just fine. I tried changing the settings in itunes to not sync the contacts in address book and then changing it back, but no help.
When i plug in the iphone it appears to sync normally but contacts don't sync.
This is driving me crazy. Any help much appreciated.

Can you restore the phone without erasing all the contacts? If so i will do it but I have stuff on there that is not nacked up, ie contacts.

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