Sync problem, really bad

Hi,
My iPhone 3G stopped syncing contacts from Address Book. It gives no error messages, it just does not do it.
I don't have any jailbreaks or other weird stuff.
I noticed the problem a few days ago which was after the recent 10.6.3 and iTunes 9.1 update, but also after experimenting with a Gmail account (which I dropped after trying).
I tried:
- restarting the iPhone
- restarting the computer
- restoring the iPhone from backup
- resetting the sync history in iSync (you never know)
Anyone with similar problems? Does anyone have advice?
Yours, Berend

same problem here after itunes 9.1 update. seems to be a common problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2383877&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2383298&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2384075&tstart=0
probably more posts...
--Peter

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