IPhone 3G doesn't pick up all the contacts in Address Book

I just laboriously entered a bunch of new contacts in Address Book. When I sync to iPhone with iTunes (7.7), most of them show up as expected. But about 30% of them are just not there. No entry at all on the phone, but I can still see them plain as day in Address Book. I tried setting the "Replace information on this iPhone" "Contacts" check box in iTunes and re-synching, with the same effect. From Address Book, I don't see anything particularly in common between the missing names (they mostly have both a phone number and an email just like the many contacts that made it OK). Any ideas?

Huh, well I just poked around in Address Book (on the Mac) for a while, and it (then) became convinced that it was time for a save. So I did (File->Save) And then the synch found the rest. So odd, though. I know that one of the contacts missing was the first one I entered! Between this and very funky behavior after importing vCard files from google (which was so bad I had to wipe the whole thing out), I can't say I'm so impressed with Address Book.

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