Recent Contact Sync Trouble

Hello all,
I've recently began having trouble syncing my contacts and calendar (Outlook and Windows Vista 32). The trouble begins shortly after attempting to sync with an error message of "Unable to read application data." It happens in exactly the same area. It will "read" all 193 of my contacts but will stop at "processing" 187 of 193 of those contacts. Phone is a Curve 8320 with recently upgraded 4.5 os and DM v4.6, both downloaded from T-Mobile. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
P. S. Thank you all so much for the help during my OS upgrade, even though you didn't know you were giving it to me.
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Hi and welcome to the forums...
Do you have any null values in your Outlook address book? You can usually find them by sorting by name and look for blank entries. Also, do you have a pictures associated with any of your contacts? (link to KB) If so, try removing the picture.
If your Outlook address book is the same as your phone, you can do this next step.
First, backup up your phone. If your address book is the same on both device and Outlook, use the BACKUP / ADVANCED and clear your address book on your Blackberry Handheld and re-sync. It should populate everything from Outlook to your BB.
If that does not work or you have a discrepancy on the amount of addresses on the BB from Outlook, then you can clear (Backup first) your address book using the BACKUP/ADVANCED Gui and re-import your address book back onto your Blackberry Handheld using the Advanced Gui. This backup - restore will re-index the address book DB and can correct issues. Then try to re-sync.
Let us know how your doing...
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