Windows Contacts not displaying Department field

I have imported about 100 contacts from an csv file that was used the last
year many times imported into Outlook express successfully! It imported
into Vista's Windows COntacts fine, they look fine when I edit a contact.
When I Export all of them from Windows Contacts, they again look fine.

BUT

When I change the view in Windows Contact to include the Department field in
the view, it shows the column, but it shows NO data for any contact no matter
how that contact was importted or created. The data is the characters and
that is it... nothing special!

Help!