I started a new thread here on how I was able to sync all my Gmail contacts into phone contacts by exporting to the sd card and re-importing. It worked perfectly for me and all my contacts automatically linked and I can set individual ringtones for everyone however it doesn't appear to have worked so well for woodyt74 so YMMV.
http://forum.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=353757&posted=1#post353757
Martian
http://forum.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=353757&posted=1#post353757
Martian