Problem syncing hotmail exchange activesync

[cameronjpu]

I'm helping a client of mine to sync his hotmail with his iPhone. This has worked for him before, but it resulted in a bunch of duplicates at some point, so I wiped it out and re-enabled syncing. The problem is, it stops at 180 contacts. Mail and calendar work fine, but the contacts stop at 180. It does it in groups of 25, and does the first 5 separately, so basically it gets stuck on the next group of 25 that would increase the number up to 205. My suspicion is that there is a single contact in that group of 25 that is preventing the sync. The problem is, there is no way to know what is in that group of 25, because it does not go alphabetically. I'm going to look around and see if I can find any contact that contains special characters, but does anyone have any other idea about how to figure this out?

I have tried the same thing on another iPhone and the same exact problem happens there, so I know the problem is not with his phone, but with his hotmail account.

Thanks for any help!