Address Book Smart Group sync for iphone

Hello,
I have had this script for a while, but it stopped working since Snow Leopard or address book updates.
It develops the following error:

error “Address Book got an error: every person doesn’t understand the remove message.” number -1708 from every person

Any help would be very much appreciated. I have researched and cannot figure out a resolution!
Thanks in advance for any help.
OS 10.6.6
Address Book Ver 5.0.3
Script Editor ver 2.3

The full code is below:


on replaceString(theText, oldString, newString)
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldString
	set tempList to every text item of theText
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to newString
	set theText to the tempList as string
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
	return theText
end replaceString

tell application "Address Book"
	set theGroups to every group
end tell

repeat with aGroup in theGroups
	if id of aGroup contains "ABSmartGroup" then
		set theName to "_" & replaceString((name of aGroup), "SM_", "")
		
		tell application "Address Book"
			if group theName exists then
				remove every person from group theName
			else
				make new group with properties {name:theName}
			end if
			add (every person in aGroup) to group theName
		end tell
	end if
end repeat

tell application "Address Book" to save