One empty contact group, deleting/resyncing no help.

Hi,
I've got an iPad 2 and an iPhone 4 with a white MacBook all running the latest respective OSes.  Last night I cleaned up my contacts and created three groups, deleting the old ones (Friends, family, work).  All of them appeared this morning and were populated but the work group, arguably the most important one.  I turned contact syncing with iCloud off and on a couple times, I reset the phone and I force quit the contact and phone apps a few times in various configurations. Finally, I just turned off iCloud, deleted everything and resynced on the iPhone (I never touched the iPad since contacts are as important for me there).  Now I have two of each group and both work groups are empty.
I think I may have a bad contact in the work group, any idea if there's a field I should look for or a rogue character that causes a problem for the contact sync?
Thanks,
mark.

Made a Work2 group and dragged all the names from the other group in.  That didn't work (it was also blank) so I manually dragged all 78 contacts in from the main list to Work3 and it took. 

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