If you're on Gtalk the vcard field for your alias is FN Otherwise it's NICKNAME. Contact_Info_Field_Flags has a Overwritten_By_Nickname member which should be present for FN or NICKNAME (as appropriate) in the SupportedFields property. An easy patch, gogogogo!
Here's a patch!
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