Maximum Number of Contacts on iPhone

Did the maximum number of contact change on the iPhone with the latest update? Prior to 1.1.3 I had more than 3700 contacts on my iPhone (I'm in sales and have my entire contacts database synced from Outlook). I have not been able to sync all of my contacts since the update. I have an iMac24 and a Windows XP Laptop. The problem seems to exist on both and if I remove a bunch of contacts I'm able to sync. I also received a new iPhone from the store today and I seem to have the same problem. Is anyone else having issues syncing large numbers of contacts to their iPhone?

not sure if this holds true for you but it did for me after long discussions for apple. though it is related to outlook on an xp computer
do you have more than one contact folder in outlook?
if so try this
Navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin.
run this at the command prompt in that directory with no quotes
"defaults write OutlookSyncClient.exe ShouldLog YES"
Outlook debug log file in Windows XP will be created and stored in C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Apple Comuter\Logs\OutlookSyncClientHelper
The log file will be named osch.log.
so run the command and then do a sync. when you open that log file, scroll down or do a search for "ipm" no quotes included. you should see it says "contacts.ipm" or somethign to that effect. if it says other than "contacts" you have either a secondary contact folder or had at one time and outlook is seeing it as a default
also yo must run "defaults write OutlookSyncClient.exe ShouldLog NO"
to shutoff the log. VERY IMPORTANT cause if you dont the log keeps growing
i had the same issue, would only sync 137 outa 1300 contacts. it was because i had a secondary contact folder that i used to sync my razor phone too. it only held 250 contacts
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