.Mac and iPhone Contact Error

Hello all,
I have a .mac account, three macs, and an iPhone. I have successful sync'd my iphone with my work computer (PeeCee) and outlook. So have been able to migrate my work contacts to one of my macs. Since my contacts list has changed dramatically, syncing them with my other macs will not work. I select replace, and I am contantly getting ".Mac Sync Error: An inconsistency detected on .Mac for your contacts data preventing your sync from completing! You should consider resetting .Mac from a computer with good data." Then I have reset the data from the 'good' computer, but it doesnt help at all. Same issue on all the other computers.
Suggestions? Thanks in Advance

I know this seems a bit harsh, but as I'm sure you've experienced, nothing else worked. Go into your User Library Folder -> Application Support and Delete the SyncServices Folder. I don't know if it messes up anything else, but it fixed this issue for me.

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