How to sync Nokia 9300i & Address Book without loosing contacts data/labels

Question

Hi,
I have a Nokia comunicator 9300i and would like to backup the contacts in it (over 700) using a Mac. I can do that on the PC using Nokia's own backup suite.
Yes, Nokia Comunicator 9300i is on the supported devices list and yes it does sync nicely and it does transfer data. It is only that the diferent labels asigned by me in the telephone are just wiped away and replaced with either "business" or "private" depending of what iSync or Address Book "thinks" is apropriate. And in my case these are not apropriate labels.
For example many contacts bear the name of the company under which there are listed contact persons and their mobile phone numbers (each with a label, ex: John, Mary etc) their faxes and emails and so on. All these names are replaced at random by Address Book by "private" or "business" or just simply wiped completely away. The problem is that it does the same on the telephone, in other words, it wipes away the labels from the telephone also. The result is that following syncing, the telephone contact list would diplay under the contact " Company X" for example just a list of phone numbers listed as "private" or "business" or simply, without label whatsoever.
Allow me to exemplify:
Contact 1 (business X)
* John: phone number 1
*Mary: phone number 2
Contact 2 (business Y)
*Max: phone number 1
*Vicky: phone number 2
*Todd: phone number 3
After syncing, the Adress Book as well as the telephone contact database will look like this:
Contact 1 (business X)
*"private": phone number 1
*"no label": phone number 2
Contact 2 (business Y)
*"no label": phone number 1
*"business": phone number 2
*"no label": phone number 3
The idea would be to preserve those "labels" that I assigned in the telephone.
I have tried few times already (when I had a smaler contact database) and it messed up the telephone in the sens that it wiped the labels away and I had to reassign them manually on the phone. Now that I have over 700 clients in the database I cannot afford to mess it up. Yes, I have been using a PC to backup this but I would rather move everything to the Mac, that is why this problem in the first place.
Therefore, does anybody know how I can adjust the settings of AddressBook or iSync so that the above mentioned situation would no longer occur?
Alternatively, if you know of a plug that would increase the manipulation possibilities of iSync or AddressBook or even a software that will help with this problem, would you please share that knowledge?
I know that these forums are not to promote other products than Apple's but in this case, unless there is possible to adjust the setings of the above mentioned Apple programs, any 3th party solution that would help do my work within Mac OS X environment is in my opinion welcome. The alternative is to just use Windows and I am trying hard to avoid that.
Thanks for any and all help.

Answer 1

Hi
I have the same problem. I'm on a Nokia E51 and it synchronizes the individual contacts fine.
Starting point: None of my contacts where parted in groups.
2: I made a group in my adressbook called "FIR" wich is my studygroup.
3: I can still synchronize the contacts. But the group ("FIR") i've created does not show up on my phone!?
Do I have to make the "FIR" group on the phone myself? I figured it would be easier to make the group in AdressBoook and then Synch it.