Just synced iPhone and SOME contacts gone from phone, still in address book

I just synced my iPhone for the first time in a couple weeks. The software is up to date, as is iTunes...
Anyhow, I noticed some of my contacts had disappeared when I looked in my SMS messages and a lot of them just had numbers where names used to be. Checked my contacts and a lot of contacts are missing.
They are still in my address book on my mac, and I have the correct folders checked so they should sync, but it is not doing so.
Photos, calendars, music/vid sync as normal.
What is going on? This is VERY annoying.
Thank you.

ShamRockNRoll,
Have you noticed if it's a specific group that is not syncing correctly, or is it random contacts from all groups? If it's just a specific group, you may need to delete that group in Address Book and recreate it.
If it's random contacts from all groups and if all of the contacts you want on the iPhone are in Address Book, you can just select "Contacts" from the Advanced section down at the bottom of the Info tab. That will replace all contacts on the iPhone with those that you have selected to sync from Address Book.
Hope this helps,
Jennifer B.

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