Phone Sync w/subset of Address Book Contacts?

Hi-
I have roughly 1500 contacts in Address Book. Is there any way to Sync only a subset - ideally a Smart Group? The window in iSync says All Contacts, but is a drop window, indicating other possibilities.
What am I missing?
iMac g4 800 Mac OS X (10.4.4) Moto E815

I have exactly the same need: to sync a small subset of my large address book with my phone. Only manually created Address Book groups appear as syncable groups in iSync - my carefully crafted Smart Groups don't show up, even after restarts, clean Address Book imports, etc.
Is this a bug? A missing feature? Or desired behavior?
(BTW, did you mean "Smart Groups" when you wrote "Smart Folders"?)
15 ALU PB 1.25GHZ FW800 Mac OS X (10.3.8)

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