Synchronizing iCloud, iPhone and MacBook Address Book

I have a MacBook running running 10.7.2 and an iPhone 4.  I've activated iCloud on both devices, but they don't seem to actually synchronize. Contacts I moved over from my old phone to the new iPhone are now showing up in my Address Book.  However, changes I made to the Address Book did not seem to make it to the iPhone.  Now, the old data on the iPhone has overridden the changes I made to the Address Book, and I'm back where I started.  Is there some sort of setting that I'm missing that makes the sync work correctly, or is this just a timing issue that will always create issues?

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