Contacts Trouble.

Hi, I have been using my iPhone 3g for a year now, and have a couple questions about Contacts and Calendars.
Firstly I have had a serious issue with my address book and google contacts. I have set my address book to sync with google contacts. I have also set my phone to do so, but I have ended up with a different combination of information on each. On any given person I will have different information on each source and they never copy to one another. Is there a way to make all 3 agree? I would like to use my Macbook's Address Book as the master source and have the other prompt me to change it when I add data to one of them, Otherwise just copy changes I make on my computer.
This has also lead to another problem, I have pictures for some contacts on my iphone, and all of them on my address book. However anytime I do not set my contact picture on the phone itself, the caller ID picture (when someone calls me) changes from a fullscreen image to a tiny useless thumbnail. Is there anyway to adjust it so pictures I set in my address book with be fullscreen on my caller ID screen?
Lastly, I would like to know if there is a useful Calendar applications I can use that will pull events from both of Google Calender and Facebook Events. Publishing out to those both would be a plus, as would syncing to my iPhone.
Thanks so much for any help... First time here and am nervous... I dont post on forums much so... Thanks agian.

I can only answer your question about getting full screen pictures to appear with incoming calls on your iPhone. In short, no, you cannot enter the pictures in Address Book and have them appear full screen on your phone with incoming calls.
I had the same question. I just got my Verizon iPhone, and I had spent the weekend programming all of my contacts into Address Book on my iMac. It took a long time because I was putting a picture with each contact. Imagine my glee when I discovered that the photos I put into contacts in Address Book only appear at about one square centimeter on my iPhone when there's an incoming call.
For anyone else who comes across this, if you put photos in contacts in Address Book, they are all but worthless (if this isn't true, please someone tell me how they can be useful). They are not only too small to see on your iPhone, they are equally small on your Mac. So, no matter how you're using contacts, those photos are so small as to be useless. Thanks Apple!
I spent quite a while on the phone with technical support today, and the only way to get the pictures entered with contacts to fill the full screen on your phone when there is a call is to enter the pictures into the contacts on your phone. So, if the pictures aren't already on your phone, you have to set iTunes to sync the pictures to your iPhone and then enter them into Contacts on the phone.
I could go into more detail about this, but I really just want to make sure that anyone else who has this problem finds this answer.
So, to sum it up:
Apple has created a situation where Address Book on your Mac conveniently syncs with Contacts on your iPhone. Unfortunately, any photo you put into a contact in Address Book will not only be so tiny in Address Book as to be unusable, it will also appear just as small (about one square centimeter) on your iPhone when you have an incoming call from that contact.
However, if you put the photo in the contact on your iPhone, it will appear full screen when you get an incoming call from that contact.
Please, if you read this and consider this a problem, go to Apple's feedback page and request that they fix this.

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