google mail on pulse

I am having a problem with google mail on my pulse the account i signed up with on the phone only syncs manually contacts only synced on the first initialising of the phone i did a factory reset and things got worse has any one got any suggestions before i throw it through the window and go back to my G1

 

Hi
ok got this sorted out don’t have favourites selected it seems to disrupt the sync on contacts also I am using k9 email with my main address I set the phone up with initially
and all seems to be working good