ITunes not syncing correctly with two separate iPhones

My wife and I each have an iPhone and we share the same desktop PC at home. iTunes sucessfully keeps our music and photos separate; however, contacts under info uses what ever was set last. I want to use Google contacts and my wife wants to use Outlook contacts; however, iTunes is not remembering the settings. Any suggestions?

Sorry about that. Well, I've tried deleting the AlbumData.xml file as suggested also, but iPhoto itself generates a new file every time it's opened, so that's really a dead end. Rebuilding the library and through iPhoto Library Manager are the steps that required most work, and both did not work either, unfortunately.
I do believe that I'm not the only experiencing iTunes syncing problem, as there have been many posts here before when 9.4 came out. Like I wrote, it has been better with each upgrade, so there's definitely something in the coding with 9.4.x that messes things up. I had no trouble whatsoever with version 9.3.2 and prior to that.
Terence Devlin wrote:
Please share a comprehensive list of things you've already tried so we won't your time - and ours - making suggestions you already know won't work.
Library size is not part of this issue. 12k photos is not a large library these days, I have one four times that size with no syncing issues.
Regards
TD

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