Duplicates across Address Book, iCal and iCloud

I recently installed iOS5 and got iCloud and set it all up. I thought I had done it all properly, but admittedly have had to fiddle with it in order to try and get it to work properly. And so I now have "two" address books ("All on My Mac" and "All iCloud"), but they are not all direct duplicates, some entries that I have on my mac are missing from iCloud. In addition to that problem, I also have duplicate birthday entries now on iCal on my mac. And thirdly, in order not to have duplicate entries also on my iPhone calender, I cannot synch my Address Book from my mac to my iPhone, which means I am missing some of my contacts, those that have not transferred into iCloud (see my first point). So, in a nutshell, can anyone help me with:
1) Getting my Address Book on my mac to transfer all my contacts from "All on My Mac" to "All iCloud"
2) Getting my iCal to just use the iCloud address book entries
3) And if none of the above, how to easily transfer all recent iCal entries back to "On My Mac" so that I can just forget about iCloud altogether
I'd really appreciate any help as I am tearing my hair out!

abubnic wrote:
I feel your frustration, Quilps. I went through the exact same thing.
Yes, part of the answer is to delete (or archive and delete) the copies for the ON MY MAC group.
But for me, I think the problem was more than an "ON MY MAC" copy and an ICloud copy. I think I was bringing in copies of the databases that were stored on my other devices. I may have synced some of the devices with ITUNES after I had made the move to the Cloud. Bad move.
In any event, it ended up fairly disastrously until I figured out a way to delete everything, get one clean copy and bring it everywhere.
Just wanted others to NOT experience the ordeal I went through in order to get it right.
I'm not Quilps

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