Contacts Suddenly Refusing To Sync

I've had a virtually flawless iPhone experience until now. My phone syncs everything but my contacts. An error box comes up telling me "contacts could not sync due to iPhone being disconnected". This is of course not true and I did check connections and have tried several times. It will sync my photos, music, podcasts, etc. It just refuses my contacts.
I'm kind of at a loss.
Thanks for your help.
Steve

This article (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305845) was very helpful. I did all the things it said including the Terminal command (ouch, very scary) but it didn't quite work. I then called Apple Care and fortunately got someone very good. He had me do the very same thing except go to the Advanced area of the iPhone Sync Updater (or whatever that thing is called in iTunes when the phone is hooked up) and override the calendars on my phone with the ones from the Address Book on my iMac. This did the trick and I can now update my contacts again.
Now, if you manually put many contacts on your phone and want to get them back to Address Book then this will not help. Fortunately i go to the computer first with my contacts.
As an aside, after the Terminal command everything was unchecked in the iPhone Updater in iTunes. I had to re-enable everything and I also noticed my email accounts are no longer listed in the box. It is just blank. I have two accounts through the Mail Application of which I use only one to go to the iPhone. Now I'm wondering how I would add an account if I wanted to.
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