Contacts Synching problem with windows address book

today i updated my itunes to ver 10, and updated my iphone os to ver 4.1,
when i tried synching my contacts to windows address book, nothing happens,
before today's update, i used to get a message while synching the contacts, that say eg. 25 contacts is updated between iphone and the windows address book..
but with this update today, nothing ( i mean contacts only ) is synching between iphone and windows address book.
please forward your suggestions to [email protected]
thanking in advance
guru

Out of the blue, it's apparently started working. So no problem...at least for now!

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