Sync Catagories for Address Book on Mac

So I finally switched to BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac from The Missing Sync but, I noticed that I am no longer able to sync my Address Book Catagories with the contacts on my device. The Contacts sync fine but, their catagories do not. They are still in seperate groups on my Mac but just on the device. I also sync my device with a Windows PC and that's how I noticed that the catagories didn't exist anymore. Does anyone have an idea for how or when this might be fixed? Thanks.
Tom
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BlackBerry Curve 8900 with T-Mobile

Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next update.....
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