They have a value because after I created the field and mapped it in sf (just checked in marketo admin and yes it is there too) then I ran a campaign to add a value in the field.
sooo, just checked the contacts in the campaign that it should have added the value to and in marketo it shows it but on the same contact in salesforce, it does not show it in the field... so I manually added the value to every contact in salesforce that needed it but I am still worried, if in the future I try to run a campaign to add a mass value and it's not syncing... maybe it just takes longer and I was impatient, not sure.
I might try a test and see if it works now.
thanks for the help!