SharePoint 2007: How to sync profile with Active Directory?

Question

I recently had an incident where the email details of a Sharepoint user were changed in Active Directory. These changes were not transferred into SharePoint and I had a problem in one of my web parts which uses the SPUser object to get the users email address.

Is there a way to configure Sharepoint to synchronise such data automatically?

Update

I changed my email address in AD and started a full profile import. I opened my Sharepoint user settings but see no change in my profile - it still shows my old email address

Answer 1

Just run a profile import from Central Admin, either a full or incremental import should update the affected profile.

Answer 2

The only way I've managed to get around this in the past is to dump the profile record that won't update and re-run the import.