Sync Address Book to Google

Mac OS 10.5.8
The Sync with Google and Sync with Exchange options are both checked within Address Book and I have entered my gmail info. However, any changes I make to contacts are not showing up when I log into Gmail.
I am wanting to keep this up to date because I have just purchased a Droid X, which syncs very well with Google apps.
Does anyone have any clues as to why my Address Book is not syncing to Google?

Same here. Trying to get my Address Book Contacts to sync to Google. It seems like checking the "Synchronize with Google" checkbox does absolutely nothing. I'm on 10.6.6. It used to work because an old set of my contacts are currently on Google. I'm not sure when it stopped working.
BTW, does anyone know if this sync is bidirectional? Like if I make a change to a contact in Google, will it come back into my addressbook?
Thanks.

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Google uses Google Sync to synchronize your contacts with your iOS and OS X. But this, from Jan 30, 2013, is only available to the paid versions of Google Apps (read more on http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2716936).
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Follow the instructions in this post: http://support.google.com/mail/answer/2753077?hl=en
Mountain Lion Contacts also supports CardDAV accounts. All you need to do is add the CardDAV account with your account credentials and it will synchronize again.
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