ITunes Fails to See Address Book Changes

Recently (suddenly), ITunes has stopped reflecting changes made to my Address Book. No changes made on my Macintosh are downloaded to my iPhone and no new groups added to the Address Book on the Mac are listed in the Contacts area in ITunes. This problem persists if I delete everything in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ and reimport an archived version of the current data.
Is there a file somewhere that iTunes looks at to determine the current contents of the Address Book? It clearly doesn't look directly at the Address Book data (unless there's a serious iTunes bug).

That has no effect.
Continued here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1396018

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This is mostly caused by the Addressbook database being corrupted even if you sync your Treo 90 to other PC you'll still have the same problem.
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In advance, thank you, thank you, thank you to the person who saves me from this error! I have no idea what I've done to deserve this!?! So, thank you for helping!!!
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When I double click on the Palm Desktop icon on my desktop, I get: Error: Failed to open Address Book Database on Palm Desktop
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I've seen a lot of people post a message that's basically like the problem I'm having. I'm sending this to everyone who had the same general type of question in hopes that my fix might cure your problem also.
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Thanks for the speedy response. However, I read the article for which you provided the link, and I hve also read many other articles that I found via search, but I don't think these will help me. All of these articles seem to assume that (1) you have a handheld to which you can sync and thereby rebuild the database on the PC, or (2) you have a backup that you created via the Palm Desktop export function. Unfortunately, I have neither and so I don't think any of these solutions will work for me.
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