Mac users: success with Missing Sync or Syncmate?

[AxeYrCat]

Things that I have learned:
1. (Most important) If adding a contact to the People tab makes it crash, change the image for that person, and it'll be fine.
2. Even if you sync your Address Book contacts with an Exchange Server and then sync from that Exchange server, the images will still break the People tab.
3. Even though I have the most up-to-date version of Address Book, I don't seem to be able to share contacts with Google as one should be able to.