[notrock]

I went into gmail and labeled all the contacts I want on my phone 'Peeps' sorry wasn't very creative that day. Then as described in the link above, I set the hero to only sync Peeps. I almost deleted everything using some backup program but caught it just in time.

Sync is VERY handy but could also destroy everything with a blink of the eye. I strongly recommend in gmail every once in awhile exporting your contacts to a .csv file and saving that file in google docs or somewhere safe in case all hell breaks loose.