THREE different counts of CONTACTS (iCloud, iPhone, MBP and MacPro)

i had thought that i extricated myself from the morass that was MM but now find myself with non-synced contacts on all three of my devices with the only device showing the same number of contacts as iCloud being my Mac Pro.
this means that i have THREE different counts for the number of contacts in my various devices and it is basically impossible for me to remember what was entered on which device and when.
is there some way out of this?
is iCloud Contact sync as unreliable as my MM contact sync or am i just doing something extremely stupid?
TIA
Jon

hi csound.
i am on 6.1 on the iphone and i only see "All Contacts" i don't see any iCloud account listed. also, while i am on Lion on the Mac Pro and Mountain Lion on the MBP and i know there may be some differences in these two as it pertains to iCloud, i am currently doing an /extended/ troubleshoot of this with advanced mac technical on the phone. there appears to be some issue with iCloud where syncing does not occur or somehow is forced to occur (as in turning off a sync in Settings > ICloud), closing settings and then re-opening settings and having the option magically checked again.
i've done this kind of misery in MM and i am hoping to get is solved here soon.
in the meantime there also appears to be a problem getting my Notes back to sycing so i have simply moved these to notational velocity for at least the time being.
with the laptop i have and these sync issues i can't take much more i am afraid and will have to figure out a way to intelligently minimize the time i spend on this kind of thing.
i can't even get a capture data to complete on the laptop so they can send the issue to the developers...

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