Synching Groups to iPhone

Hi, really sorry to post this because I'm sure the answer is out there somewhere but I've spent days looking through the forum and just can't see it.
I'm a Mac OS X user and I have a Group set up in my Address Book. I want that Group (and others I plan to create) to appear in my iPhone contacts.
However, when I attach the iPhone to iTunes and go to the "info" tab, the only radio buttons available to check in the "Contacts" section are "Synch Address Book contacts" (which I've checked).
The button below - "All contacts" - is checked but the one below that, "Selected groups", is grayed out. The large box is also greyed out and so is the line below that which says "Put new contacts created on this iPhone into the group".
Am I going nuts and missing something? Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thanks

Problem solved! I'd created the Groups in Address Book as Smart Groups.
Now that I've got a Group on my iPhone, it seems there's no way of adding all the names in a Group to an email at the same time.
I've created a new mail on the iPhone and found the Group I want to send to, but I can't just tap on the Group and have them all added at one time. Seems a bit odd - unless of course I'm just not seeing something else that's very obvious.
Thanks viali for your help.

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