Merging Palm vcards with existing address book entries.

Hi,
The most complete list of contacts I previously had was from my gmail accounts. I imported them into Address Book and all was good. Unfortunately, for almost all of the contacts imported this way I have only the name and email adress of the contact. My Treo650 contains a lot of the same contacts with phone numbers but no emails. Is there an efficient way to merge the vCards of contacts from my Treo with the entries currently in Address Book to produce single vcards with phone numbers AND email addresses?
Thanks,
Rich

Actually, yes.
A standard iSync synchronization event should reach down to the field level of each and every record, and incorporate the differences into each record stored on every application, device and server involved in the event. Read this Developer Note to get an idea of how the process of pulling, pushing and mingling changes and the conflict resolution process work under the Sync Services framework:
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/syncservices.html

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