IPod Touch/iPhone users beware of potential sync problems

I've been pulling my hair out at this for the past couple of hours.
Trying to sync my K850i and it kept failing to sync. So, I followed the recommended advice and created a group - syncing a ten or so contacts at a time. I got to my girlfriend's contact and it failed.
She then fessed up to having "edited her address book entry on the iPod Touch", so I took a closer look and she'd added a "nickname" for herself.
"Nickname" is a valid field on the iPod Touch, and will carry over to Address Book as a custom field. But it will break the sync to a phone such as mine.
Solution is simple: delete the "nickname" field in Address Book (appears under name and above job title) and resync.
Hope that saves somebody a little bit of time!

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