Set Address Book to default to Exchange contacts

In Address Book, I prefer to have my Exchange contacts be the default. So, I go to Preferences>General>Default Account and select my Exchange account.
It seems after every reboot, this defaults back to On My Mac contacts. Very frustrating, as when you creat a new contact, it is not created in the Exchange folder.
I do have 3 Macs all syncing via MobileMe but contact sync is turned off.
Any ideas? Thanks!

Waiting was the key solution here!
After waiting aprox 2/3 hours it worked. Changed nothing...

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