OS X Address Book + iPhone 4 + mobileMe - Are There Limits?

OK... so with no love on the previous thread yet, I'm asking again for assistance but will take a different tact. I can't seem to find an answer to the question.
Are there limitations and/or restrictions in OS X Address Book, iPhone 4 and/or mobileMe as to the number of data fields each contact can have or display?
Please let me know.

Figured out what was happening here. It seems that even though a new contact is synced immediately (from MobileMe to the iPhone), categorization data is NOT -- it seems to take hours until this data gets updated.
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