Offline Mac-iPhone syncing when both are registered to MobileMe.

I know this is not the right place to post, but the correct forum seems to take a loooooot longer to produce nice answers, so, if anyone here could help, I'd much appreciate it.
Original post:
Ok, once I have turned MobileMe on, I had all my iPhone data erased so it could retrieve everything from the cloud. It worked perfectly but left me with one doubt.
I usually travel to places where I can't access wifi and cellular coverage is terrible so, sometimes it'll be very hard to sync Mac and iPhone to MobileMe.
In this situation, will my MacBook sync contacts and calendars to my iPhone when plugged to iTunes? Will any changes made, for instance, in my iPhone Address Book sync to my MacBook when I plug it or will it wait until I can connect to MobileMe to sync them?
Thanks.
JP

Well,
Thanks for that.
To stop MobileMe is easy but, it's a boring procedure.
You simply go to Preferences on your iPhone, Mails, Contacts, etc, turn off MobileMe for the services you want to sync directly from your Mac. Plug your iPhone to your Mac. On iTunes, select the iPhone and go to the Info tab. Check the services you want to sync and click Apply. It will replace all data on the iPhone with data from the Mac. Since they're supposed to be the same data, no problem. Boring but, no problem.
Cheers.
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