I cannot get my new iPhone to sync with my address book or calendar

Help!  What am I doing wrong? Someone out there give me step-by-step.  My computer is Mac OS X.  I have an iPhone 4.

As I don't know what you have done I don't know what you are doing wrong. Have you read the manual, either from the built in Safari bookmark on your phone or from your computer at http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf ?
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