Google contact sync keeps thinking 25% of contacts have changed

Hi --
I'm trying to configure my fiance's Macbook Air to sync her contacts with Google and keep getting messages about an unexpectedly large number of contacts being changed. To debug this, I've migrated the address book by hand, and am still getting there error.
Note that the Mac contacts are currently also synching with MobileMe.
Here is how I reproduced the weird behavior:
1. Backup all contacts from both Address Book and Google contacts.
2. Export all Address Book contacts to a group vcard file.
3. Delete all contacts from Google contacts.
4. Import the vcard file from step 2 into Google contacts.
5. Configure Address Book to sync with Google contacts.
6. Select Sync Now from the sync menu.
After a few minutes, a dialog box pops up saying that this sync operation with Google will change more than 25% of my contacts. By my reasoning, there should be no changes since I just uploaded the identical address book by hand. Am I doing something obviously wrong here?
Thanks!
Ramon
Ramon

Same problem here, but happened on my first sync.

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