- Some contacts without company names ended up with other records data in their empty fields.
- Some contacts without address data ended up with duplicate e-mail addresses
- Some contacts had their street fields abbreviated and the following fields (city, country, etc.) erased.
Furthermore, these CRs were only in there because I had exported my data from Outlook to Entourage to Address Book using some AppleScripts availble on VersionTracker. I suspect I would never have typed CRs when entering these records.
NOTE: If you are planning to remove CRs in your records, first, make a backup and secondly, use the forward delete (function + delete) when removing the CRs from your fields. Using just the delete key seems to trigger a bug in Address Book.
This very conveniently explains why some people had a perfect experience with P800/iSync and others had a terrible one. If you had only entered contacts on your P800 and/or had not used Carriage Returns, and had no firewall turned on, it would have worked first time. If my theory is correct, it would explain why less-techie users had no problems, while more technical users had a much harder time. Doesn't explain how this got past the testing though....
Hope this is of help to any long-suffering P800 users out there still trying to get this to work.

