IPhone does not sync with Address Book

When syncing my iPhone, Address Book and Contacts do not sync.
Called applecare, they were totally unhelpful!
I now have changed Address Book entries on my Mac, as well as independently changed and added other contacts on the iPhone, so I am afraid to blow away one or the other libraries and lose one of these sets of changes. At least that's what I think is being recommended in the other thread that comes up on this topic: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1413283?start=0&tstart=0
Using iPhone 3GS with recent MacBook Pro (10.6.8). All software updated, etc.
Thanks for any help.

Thanks for the tip.
I reset the sync history as you suggested.
When syncing again, contacts are tranferred from Mac to iPhone (or so it says). Once.
But contacts created on the phone have not been transferred in the other direction.
And when I create a test contact on my mac and sync again, it does not transfer.
Any thoughts?

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