Duplicates in Address Book?

Every time I edit or add info to a contact on my address book, it makes a duplicate... How do I fix this... It does it on my iPhone 4s and on my ipad 2...

I have the exact same behavior on my iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1
On icloud.com I don't see the duplicates.
Edit: It seems to have something to do with changing the Apple ID, which I did recently. Look at this discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17239744#17239744

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