Data loss between Address Book and Contacts

I have some detail in my address book (detail within individual contact) on my desktop that does not seem to "push" to my iphone. I get phone number, address but not the rest of the detail I have added via address book. Is there a way to expand the detail that is "pushed" to mobileMe, iphone or both?

Grrr, I'm not an addressbook specialist, but since no one answere yet I guess i'll give it a crack.
Can you try to close address book, then drag these files from your ~/library/preferences/ folder and put them on your deskop?
com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
com.apple.AddressBook.plist
Re-open Addressbook and see what happens.

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is Address Book and Contact the same program on my Macbook Pro?
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Welcome to the BlackBerry Support Community Forums.
Thanks for the question.
This is caused by having multiple address books on the BlackBerry smartphone. This can also cause syncrhonization issues, I would suggest following the steps in this KB article to make address book number the same as address book all: www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB19704
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