ISync no longer allows address book selection after MobileMe setup

Hi - I have a problem with iSync ever since I set up my MobileMe account.
I keep my contacts and my partners contacts in the same address book and separate them using groups. Then I synchronise my contacts with my Blackberry Pearl using PocketMac and her contacts with her Nokia using iSync. This was all working fine because the sync packages were allowing me to select the address book groups appropriately for each device.
Now I've signed up for a MobileMe account and iSync no longer lets me select the group I want to synchronise with the Nokia. Am I missing something really obvious or does MobileMe assume that you want all contacts to be synchronised with all devices?

Tried the advice in this post: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4240043#4240043
But it did not work.

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