ISync adds a "-" to contacts with First/Last Name Blank

Hello, I'm using iSync 2.3 with a Nokia 8800 (S40) and Sonyericsson T610.
When a contact's name is First name:John Last name:Smith, it syncs properly to my phones as "John Smith".
With First name: John Smith Last name: empty, it syncs as John-Smith-.
Same goes with a blank first name. Some of the contacts only have a first name written in, anyone knows how I can get rid of the extra -s?

I'm not aware of anyone called just "John"! Everybody I know has at least a first name and a last name... therefore that is the data I enter into Address Book and iSync works fine for me and all my Sony Ericsson phones.
If you don't provide the required data, you can't really expect iSync to work correctly.
There is a reason for this... its because most phones don't split First and Last Name into two fields like Address Book does. So, if you have a contact named just "John" with no last name, when you sync, how does iSync know whether "John" is a First or Last name?
To get around this iSync adds a '-' into the blank field, so that when syncing back it knows where to put the data.
The solution is extremely simple, just provide Address Book with a first and last name (which AFAIK everyone has).

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