Iphone won't sync some old or any new contacts with Yahoo contacts

Ok, here it goes:
I have the current 2.2 firmware, I have itunes 8.0 and all the minimum system requirements.
So, I sync my iphone, and all functions work except the following:
My iphone, when syncing, will not add some of my current yahoo contacts, and has stopped adding new contacts that have been added via my computer. There are no consistencies on why only these few will not update (such as they are all from one group, all missing emails, all without phone numbers, etc.). I tried deleting these contacts and after shutting down itunes and yahoo, I tried adding them again as new contacts. Still wont sync these contacts.
Any contacts that currently exsist in my iphone WILL update when I change the information on my computer, and use the advanced feature telling itunes to replace the contacts on the iphone with the info on this computer. New contacts, and these few exsisting contacts, however, will not get added to the iphone.
I reset the sync history.
I done't have any COM add-ins in my Outlook.
I tried setting up a new user acount in my Windows XP.
I uninstalled and reinstalled itunes.
After this, I tried switching from Yahoo contacts to Outlook contacts, just to see if those would work. The contacts from Outlook synced perfectly, but when I switched back to Yahoo, the contacts WERE EXACTLY THE SAME as they were before the switch.
I went to the Apple store and went to the "Genius" bar. He completely reset (aka erased) my iphone. I synced my iphone, but after two hours, I still had exactlty the same problem, and EXACTLTY THE SAME CONTACTS I had before the reset. Those same missing contacts were still missing.
Help.

K,
Guess everyone is at MacWorld...
But thankfully I did some more fiddling... lots of fiddling actually.
I found that if I updated a contact on my computer that was CURRENTLY in my iphone, that the contact would update in the iphone upon synching...
So, they ARE talking...
I kept looking for reasons as to WHY these contacts wouldn't update. Even if I deleted them, logged out, logged in and then re-imputed them.
FOUND IT.
All the contacts had birthdays entered in the Yahoo Contacts that did not have a year.
ex. June 18
So, I entered a random year (because I don't know the year that ALL my friends are born), and tried the sync again (using the "Advanced" feature of overwriting the iphone with the info on computer)...
ex. June 18 1987
WOW. They got added to my iphone.
There was one contact where the date year was missing from the anniversary. This also affected the sync, and was fixed when I added the year to the anniversary (which is weird since the iphone does not have anniversaries in the contact information).
I think I'll be writing some feedback now...

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