Syncing Contacts Takes Long Time ...

I am a fairly new iPhone user syncing to a MacBook Pro running 10.5.8. It seems my syncing of contacts takes an unusually long time. I only have 240 contacts in Address Book and even if I have not made any changes to a contact, iTunes sits on Syncing Contacts for several minutes. Eventually it does move on to Calendar, Notes, etc. but those all go very quickly. The couple of times that the contacts sync quickly it seems like some updates did not actually sync. Something seems wrong.

Any ideas what could be going on or more importantly, how I can correct this slow syncing?

Thanks,

David

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