ITunes 7 not syncing Address Book with 2nd Gen Nano or 5th Gen iPod

I try to 'tick' the contacts, but it keeps saying "No contacts in your address book". Only there is - lots of them.
iTunes syncs everything else, including calendars, but refuses to sync contacts.
Any ideas?

Well, I've just had the OS re-installed for the third time and it appears to be working again. For now...
Intel iMac that works when it feels like it Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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In iCal, choose *Back up iCal...* from the File menu.
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Finally delete the aforementioned SyncServices folder and restart the Mac. This will force Mac OS X to recreate the SyncServices folder, and hopefully fix your problem.
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John, I believe the answer lies in the subtle differences between contact fields used and populated by Address Book, and those used and populated by Google Contacts: they do not utilize the same fields for what, on the surface, appears to be the same info. For example, if your Address Book entry contains two words in the last name field, Google imports this as one word for middle name and one word for last name. The sync back from Google to Address Book results in "duplicate" entries, and the warning message that your Address Book entries will be changed.
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elogsdon wrote:
My blackberry will not sync my address book. It goes through the calendar and tasks but not the address book.
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Also, when I delete emails "on mailbox & handheld" using my phone nothing changes. I have to do it again on my PC.
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