IPhone4 Contacts not being synced to MobileMe

This is odd.
I have found any contacts created on my iPhone4 are not being synced to MobileMe and also any of my Macs.
Which means I do not see them on the web contacts in MobileMe
or on my Macs.
But they do show up on my iPad.!!
The ones that are being created on the iPhone go into its group 'Contacts'
You can see this when you Nav to groups.
I am sure this used to work ??
Any one got any ideas
Thanks

Ok I found the problem
For some reason, under the Default Account in then Contacts settings on the iPhone, It was set to my Exchange account.
Adding contacts used to work, so it may be the recent update to the iOS changed it??
Anyway, changing it back to my mobileme account fixed the issue

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