Information lost between Address Book (iMac) and Contacts (iPod Touch)

When I synchronise my iPod Touch with my iMac (Leopard), some characters are suppressed in my Contacts listed in the iPod: " ( ) " " - ", spaces and all "returns" (paragraphs).
For example, the following phone number in my iMac address book: 33 (0)1 24-78-89-12 becomes 330124788912 in my iPod Touch.
Same problem with information written under "Comments".
Very annoying with long phone numbers and comments with two or more paragraphs.
Could you help me? I would appreciate it. Thanks!

NB: the console.log file shows the following on a number of lines:
2006-01-29 08:35:51.307 iTunes[564] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Users/mydisk/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local/clientdata/
0063006f006d002e006100700070006c0065002e006900730079006e006300440055002e00690070 006f0064002e0041003200370030003000300032003800320043003200310034/recordids.synci dmap

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