Mobile Me, Address Books, etc

Hello all - I am trying to finally straighten out my fractured contact information across a variety of platforms and programs. I believe I have finally ironed out most of my book, stored in my Address Book on my Home Mac. My iphone and Mobile Me accounts seem to have a hash of various previous attempts, I want to eliminate those address books and use the data on Home Mac to update everything. I manually deleted the Mobile Me contacts list (wasn't apparent if there was a better or easier way to accomplish this), and then attempted to sync my Home Mac Address Book with Mobile Me. I got the error message stating (paraphrasing here) that Mobile Me was going to overwrite my address book, and as a result, 3,506 addresses would be deleted (with no additions or duplicates mentioned). Scary. Good thing I asked for an alert if more than x% of my contents were going to be modified!
So - my question is -how can I propagate my Home Mac address book to both Mobile Me (and by extension) iphone? I find the usually good help provided by Apple a bit quiet on this.
Thanks!
G

HI,
Launch Mac Mail. From the Mail Menu Bar, click: Mailbox / Rebuild. This can take a few minutes to run.
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