Anyone sync Google Contacts with Address Book Application?

[Wailer]

I've been trying to sync my Google Contacts with the Address Book (ver 4.1.2 running on OS X 10.5.8).

I don't have an iphone but my Palm Pixi will sync with Google Contacts. I want to have Address Book synced so that I'm not dependent on my phone or being online/cloud to lookup a contact.

I've been able to follow this convoluted process. These instructions have you change a plist (to get sync working without an attached device) and require you setup a Yahoo account (luckily I have one) even though you don't sync from it.

I've actually been able to get Address Book to import my Gmail contacts via iSync, which is comforting. However, changes I make in Address Book are not reflected in Google Contacts nor is any data that was originally stored in Address Book syncing with Google Contacts.

Anyone currently use Google Contacts and Address Book (without an iphone) successfully?

For what it's worth, Google Calendar/iCal and Gmail/Mail sync beautifully to my mac as well as to my Palm Pixi. Both iCal and Mail provide me with a non cloud-based backup and offline access.

[Ken Sp.]

In 10.6 It is a snap---just Address Book>Preferences>Accounts, and enter gmail name.

iCal is the same.

I am not on 10.5 to test, you should be able to set up some sort of CalDav and CardDav

[Wailer]

Ok. I have an imac on 10.6. Not sure why I didn't think to test that, so thanks for suggesting that!

Edit: As you suggested, it works as it should in 10.6.4 and Address Book v5.0.2. Yet another reason to finally move to 10.6. Updates in Address Book are reflected in Google Contacts. Argh. Wasted a ton of time dealing with this in 10.5.8 but I'm glad it works. Thanks again.

Edit #2: Hrm. It seems to have messed up in a strange way. In instances where I only have an email address from someone (no name assigned to it) it seems to have merged two or more of them into one contact. Do You have any problems with the syncing?