Contacts won't sync with iCloud on Mac

I'm running 10.8.2 on several Macs. I have iCloud enabled on each Mac. One of my Macs, however, will not sync Contacts to iCloud. Everything worked fine prior to the latest upgrade, but now this one Mac is like its own Contact Island. Nothing I create there gets off the island, and nothing on iCloud makes it to the island. iCal syncs, Safari syncs, Mail syncs, but not Contacts!
As far as I can tell all my settings on these devices are identical. iCloud (in System Prefs) has Contacts checked; Mail, Contacts, and Calendars (in System Prefs) has contacts checked (under iCloud); Contacts Accounts tab has iCloud enabled.
Mostly Contacts acts as if it's happily syncing (the little spin-y wheel spins next to the iCloud label above my Groups list, then it looks like a lightning bolt of some kind), but it never actually syncs. (And I don't ever actually see the spin-y ball thing on any of my other Macs that do sync, so maybe that's a sign of a problem?) Once it gave me an error "CoreDAVErrorDomain error 1," but I haven't seen that again.
What am I missing?
This is driving me nuts. Help!
Mark

Update: suddenly, after not updating, the contacts I first put on my iPhone yesterday suddenly updated onto my Mac. Phone and Mac have been on lines plenty of times since then, so why didn't the contact details go up onto iCloud in all that time?

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