Problem importing contacts from Outlook

I maintain my address book in an MS Access database. I have defined a query that extracts the fields and records I want in my contacts list. My goal is to have the same contacts list in Outlook and on my iPhone. After exporting the query data to a CSV file and then importing the data from the CSV file to Outlook, I get all the records and all of the data in each record except the email fields.If I create a second high-level node in Outlook and import the contacts into a Contacts folder in that node, everything works correctly, including the email addresses. After multiple conversations with the Outlook gurus, they suggest that there may be something "special" about the regular contacts folder in Outlook because it is the one that iTunes "sees". Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
iTunes 10.6.3.25 iPhone 4S MS Access 2003 Outlook 2003
Thanks,
Bob

hello,
are your contacts in the outlook contacts folder or are they in a subfolder of the Contacts folder ?
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