Sync address book to Yahoo?

I'd like to sync my mac address book with my Yahoo! address book. Currently, the yahoo book mirrors a very old version of the Mac book. When I turn on the option in Address Book (Preferences/General) and then do a sync, it gives me two options - copy from Yahoo to Address Book, or merge the two. What I want is a third option - copy from Address Book to Yahoo - that doesn't seem to exist. When I try a merge, it threatens to change lots of my existing entries, and not in a good way, since my Mac addresses are the correct ones. I tried deleting all entries on Yahoo, but then when I do a sync with the merge option it wants to delete my entire Mac address book as well. Sheesh!
How do I make this work?
BTW, I think that I originally populated the Yahoo book from the Mac, but I can't figure out how I did it. Did Address Book used to have an option to export a .csv file? It doesn't seem to have such an option now, but I could swear that it did, once upon a time.
Thanks for any help with this.

Jerry, I've had the same problem. And the solutions offered by many involve third party apps and workarounds. That's not the answer, that's not SYNC, rather, we should take Apple to task, not make excuses for them. Enough of my ranting - here's what worked for me.
Like everyone else, I was excited about the possibilities of MobileMe and then, shockingly disappointed. I synced Mobile Me, Yahoo and and Iphone with disastrous results. Fortunately, I backed up everything. Decided to chuck MobileMe for a few months while Apple worked out the kinks.
But still had problems with Yahoo and Mac's Address Book. I discovered two potential problems. When an address book in Yahoo is deleted, it's stored in the Trash folder and probably confuses the sync mechanism so empty your Yahoo Trash folder. Secondly, as mentioned in previous replies, you do need to turn on the isync feature and click on "sync now" after you enable Yahoo in your Address Book preferences. It's OK to click on Merge Data since nothing exists in Yahoo to corrupt your Mac Address Book.
You'll probably see 100 contacts within a minute of syncing but the rest take a few minutes (I also have over 500 contacts). Log out and back in again and your Yahoo Address Book should be populated.
Hope this helps and hope it works for you!
I've heard good things about Plaxo and tried it briefly a few month ago but wasn't impressed, but meant to try again when I have more time. Thanks for the reminder Toadman.
Tim

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