Issue syncing contacts to iphone

I originally sync'd my contacts with no problems. But, now i can't sync them. I can sync music and videos, but my contacts do not update.
Help!

Also looking for an answer to this problem. I have an executive that had created many contacts before setting the default account to exchange and now only new contacts he creates on his phone are syncing. The others still remain only on his phone.
What's the easiest way to get them off and into exchange?

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After reviewing your post, I have located an article that can help with contact syncing. It contains a number of troubleshooting steps and helpful advice for the issue you are experiencing:
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when synching iPhone i get the following message: iTunes could not sync contacts to iPhone because the sync server failed to sync the phone. any idea how to fix this problem?

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Message was edited by: Saurabh Garg
Message was edited by: Saurabh Garg

Thanks for the idea of looking at the Console. I've created new contacts on my MacBook and my iPhone, but neither is syncing to the other, in fact a new contact group I created in Address Book doesn't even show up in the list of groups in the Contacts sync window in iTunes. Here's what the Console says every time I sync:
3/28/08 2:45:54 AM AddressBookSync[315] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x1a02fc0 <x-coredata://2123D5A6-CBBA-4900-B49B-0DDF0F8195A8/ABCDPostalAddress/p68>'
3/28/08 2:45:54 AM com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[176] 2008-03-28 02:45:54.040 AddressBookSync[315:10b] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x1a02fc0 <x-coredata://2123D5A6-CBBA-4900-B49B-0DDF0F8195A8/ABCDPostalAddress/p68>'

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