Sync of Address Book from computer to MobileMe is only partial & smartgroup

I cleaned out my AB on Mobile Me and also my 2 computers, to start fresh. In past syncs have gone okay. But I synced the AB on one machine to Mobile Me and the AB had 600 contacts but only 572 ended up on MobileMe. Then I checked the other Mac and when it synced with MM, only those 572 came in.
Also, although in the 600 grouping there were some smart groups, the groups didn't transfer up to MM = but checking the 572 on Mac#2, I see duplicate Groups. I have the same 572 but the smartgroups they are part of are not on MM but do show up on my Mac#2.
What I would like is [1] clean off all AB contacts everywhere except the Master machine, {2} sync the Master machine's 600 entries over to MM and then to Mac#2 and have the smart groups only show up once and not duplicated.
Not sure what is going on but would appreciate help.
The contact master is on a 10.5.7 machine, the #1 Mac is a SnowLeopard machine, if that matters.

So here's another reason why I don't like the Pre. My contacts were sent to the Per at the store then we wiped the 800 (to put it on Ebay) So the contacts are only in the Pre. What good is back up if I can't use it? You'd think the palm server would be able to send the stuff back to my Outlook????
Thanks for your reply.... Guess I'm stuck plugging in all the numbers one at a time before I take the phone back.

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