My iMac cancels all contacts on the iPhone while synchronizing!

i have a problem with my imac and my iphone.
As i had a macbook before, i transmitted all datas from it to my new imac. Apperently a contact/ ical "bug"
i never realized, that my posts from the calender never synchronized to the macbook. now at the imac i have the same problem AND that it deletes my contacts. i unticked the possibilty to replace all contacts on the iphone. so that can't be the problem.
ANY Ideas?????

Matthew Smith wrote:
... The only way I can think of doing it otherwise is possibly by syncing via iTunes via another Mac OS X user account where the address book is empty and then deleting them there and resyncing. ...
Brilliant! That worked like a charm.
I created a new User Account on one of my Macs and logged into it. I connected my iPhone to its iTunes and checked my iPhone's Sync Contacts option in iTunes. Since that account's address book was basically empty (two dummy contacts, one for Apple and one for this new user), I ended up with only those two Contacts on the phone. Then, going back to my real User account (which does not have syncing turned on in iTunes) the phone synced nicely with the MobileMe account and populated the phone with all the MobileMe contacts and groups.

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