How can I get rid of and prevent further duplicate contacts when syncing?

I have checked preventing automatic syncing and any other places that seemed to give me some limiting conrol. But I noted the tiny print today that says when syncing by connection with Itunes, mobile me is also in contact wirelessly. I can't see any place mobile me gives me a choice to prevent syncing contacts. I have already spent hours cleaning up the contacts of my iphone 4 and will now have to do it again. Is the only way not to connect to I tunes? How then can you ever get music and other info into this smart phone?

Did you check this article? iPhone/iPod touch: Resolving duplicates and removing all contacts/calendars/bookmarks with MobileMe
This thread may also help: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2241007?threadID=2241007&tstart=0

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