SyncMyCal will sync contacts from Outlook to Google for you. I use it to do that. Costs about $15 IRRC. Does both calendar and contacts sync. Seems to work pretty well.

So will another program...rats, can't remember the name of the program right now, but there is another one that will do that as well.

 

i use soocal and if you can deal with 30 mintue delays in the syncs then it is awesome especially for the price (free)

 

i cant remember if there is a way to sync only 1 direction such that it never touches your outlook addressbook but i remember there are ways to have it backup your address book every so often so that should anything become corrupt it will fix it. I would back up both my gmail contacts and outlook and then have it sync up the first time. it did an excellent job of not duplicating anything or causing problems though if you prefer you can remove all ur gmail contacts and have the sync go from outlook to soocial then from soocial to gmail. i have had no issues with it so far other than it is not compatible with office 2010 beta yet (though it doesnt sound ur running that)

 

I have to add that I've discovered a problem w/my events on the Droid that I think may be from w/SyncMyCal - events get from Outlook to Google Calendar fine, but then sync down to the Droid w/out reminders. If I enter an event on Google Calendar it syncs w/reminders just fine, so I'm thinking there is something different about how SyncMyCal puts events into Google...things used to sync w/reminders just fine, so it may be that there was an update to SyncMyCal that broke things...