My experience has been that the sync option in Address Book does not do anything at all, and that the Entourage 2004 address book sync is in fact a two way sync and not just a pull to Entourage from Address Book as this hint indicates. I wish it was just a pull as I have problems of labels changing, addresses duplicating themselves, and data just going missing. Turning off the Entourage syncing stops all those problems. (I'm also syncing Address Book between 2 Macs, and an iPhone on the computer without Entourage. I connect to a 2007 Exchange server.)

In Entourage 2004 you can sync to your "on my computer" address book or your exchange account address book, but both will be syncs and not one way pulls as this indicates. The difference is that the exchange address book would get your info up to your OWA page, and the on my computer is, well, just that.

I've also found that address book syncing in 2008 is completely broken.

Perhaps what is causing these unwanted modifications of the labels is not the syncing process with Entourage, but the Entourage to Exchange sync that's happening. I'll try syncing with my Apple Address Book with the "on my computer" Entourage address book and see if I have problems. From experience I'd say it may take a week or two for those problems to appear. I'll follow up later.

If anyone knows a way to do a pull only from address book I'd like to hear about it.

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Follow up to my reply: No problems so far syncing to the local Entourage contact list.

Also, I remembered that addresses with 2 lines for the "street" entry were the entries that sometimes were duplicated when I was syncing with exchange. It couldn't handle "street" entries formated like this:

123 Fake St
Apt 1A

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