If I enter a new contact in Address Book on my MacBook Pro it copies onto my iPhone via iCloud but editing an existing contact does not copy to the iPhone

I have set up my new iPhone 4 to sync with my MacBook Pro using iCloud as default.  This works fine with Calendars on iCal in both directions.  However, I am struggling with Contacts because new entries on the iPhone appear on my Mac's Address Book fine but erratically the other way.  New entries on the Mac seem to appear OK on the iPhone but edits to existing accounts do not appear.  Also, many entries were missing when I imported the main list from Mac to iPhone but that was done by cable through iTunes before setting up iCloud.

Welcome to the Apple community.
First check that all your settings are correct, that contact syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the contacts you are adding are added to your 'iCloud' group and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud group (you can do this by checking in groups), non iCloud contacts will not sync.
If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your contacts are in the iCloud group, you might try unchecking contact syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling contact syncing.

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