Large Contact Address Book Question

Hello...
Does Google or the Pre have a max size on contacts? I ask as I have a very large address book at over 8,000 contacts that I had on my Treo 700P. I used the Data Transfer Assistant and only seemed to get as far as the letter "U".
I am taking a guess that the Pre has a max of 8,000 contacts. Can anyone verify that they have chosen the Google option for sync and they have more than 8,000 contacts?
Thank you,
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)

Hi. Following up on this answer, & to confirm: This is the only way to get rid of duplicate info that is stored in the Palm Profile, correct? When I first ran DTA, from my Palm desktop, I hadn't realized just how many duplicates there were. I'm now cleaning up those contacts, in the old Palm Desktop (actually, in ECCO, an old PIM that works w/ Palm Hotsync, & now MotionApps Classic). However, I understand that if I run DTA again, I'll simply be adding another set of contacts, albeit w/ no dupes, into what's already stored in the Profile, w/ all of its many dupes. So, the only answer is to wipe the Pre, after deleting the Backup?
Also, a tip gleaned elsewhere: for Windows XP users, MS Synctoy, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52&Displa... allows one to create & maintain an exact copy of two directories & associated subdirectories, across drives. So I have created an exact duplicate (Have I? Is anything missing) of the palm Pre on the root directory of my C-Drive (had to put on the root directroy, b/c some of the Palm Pre subdirectory names are so long), which I run manually, but which should allow me to restore all missing data files (i.e. photos, docs, & videos, not settings & such, which are buried in files which I can't figure out) after the wipe.
Please advise me if there's a problme w/ the above. Thank you!

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