Calendars and Contacts appearing twice on iPhone

Since upgrading to OS 3.0 on my iPhone 3G I am finding that all my iCal events are appearing twice in the Calendars app.
And when I do a spotlight search on the iPhone, I find that contacts are listed twice.
I am a mobileMe user, and use mobile Me to sync my info to the phone over the air, rather than syncing calendars and contacts via iTunes.
Is anyone else having this info aear twice? Any ideas on how I can get the duplicate info to disappear?

Do you have MobileMe? This occurs if you sync Calendar with your Mac iCal AND MobileMe, with both having the same listings. You get duplicates with Contacts for the same reason. If you open Calendar and touch the left arrow to show "Calanders" you'll find 2 copies, merged in "All"
To get rid of the duplicates:
1. Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calenders > Accounts > MobileMe > Calendars > Off
You'll get a warning: "There are existing calenders synced with your Mac. Would you like to merge them with your MobileMe account?" Choose "Do not Merge". You then are asked what to do with the existing calenders on your phone - select "Delete."
2. Connect your phone to iTunes and go to the "info" tab of your device page and disable sync contacts with your Mac.
3. Settings > Mail.... > Accounts > MobileMe > Calendars > ON. It will take a few minutes to re-sync the calender without duplicates.
If you also have duplicates in Contacts, go though the same process.

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