ITunes & iPods can't see iCloud contacts

Question

I have 3 iPods that do not support iCloud (a Classic, an old Nano, and an old Touch).  After activating iCloud on my iTunes computer, I noticed that, for each iPod, when I plugged it into iTunes, contacts and calendar syncing were both turned off.  After turning it back on, calendars worked fine -- it started to sync with the iCloud calendars.  But contacts won't work: when I turn on contact sync, the iPod's list of contacts becomes empty.
It looks like iTunes can't see the iCloud contacts, and only looks for "On My Mac" contacts.  For example, under "Selected Groups," no groups appear, even though Address Book displays a handful of contact groups in iCloud.
Anybody else notice this?  What do I do now?

Answer 1

This is a fixable problem-if you don't mind turning off Contacts in iCloud.  I turned off just the Contacts in iCloud and when I synced my 2G iPod the contact list, groups included, could then be synced.  It was a solution that allowed my contacts to be placed on my iPod, but I assume that my outdated iPod will not allow iCloud contact syncing.