Contacts not synching properly...

Hi Guys,
Just been tidying up my Address Book on the Mac and reset the sync to .Mac Have also just synched to my iPhone and some of the contacts have information missing like phone numbers etc!
Is their a reason for this or even a workaround? Plainly a phone with missing numbers is about as useful as a chocolate ashtray...
Cheers
rich

I couldn't have put this better as I too have the same **** problem - what is going on! Surely this is a simple function that Apple should be put away for screwing up - unbelievably slack performance

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