Syncing iPhone 4 with Outlook & getting Duplicates Contacts

I am syncing an iPhone 4 using a PC with 2003 outlook. Problem is that some of my contacts are showing duplicates on the iPhone when there are no duplicates in outlook. I have tried several things that have been suggested by others including wiping out contacts on the phone. Deleting all by archived PST files, creating a new PST file and deleting the original. What is perplexing is that if I delete one of the two duplicates off of the iPhone then when syncing it takes the original only copy off of the PC in outlook. Driving me crazy. iPhone & iTunes are up to date as of last night.
Thanks

Update, it looks to be sync'ing, just not with my folders. So I deleted the 4,000 blank vCards.
There is another twist to this that I had not mentioned. My folders were erased on my iPhone thanks to a Google/Gmail contacts sync. However, my folders are still very much intact on Outlook. In fact, that's how I noticed it was actually sync'ing. I added four new contacts yesterday to my iPhone, and all four showed up in the folder I set up for "Outlook folder to add new items to:" via Sync Services.
So it syncs with THAT folder. : )
So how do I get it to sync my folders from Outlook to my iPhone?
I'm thinking of exporting from Outlook to Address Book. If I export that would give me a back up copy. Delete contacts in Address Book (if that's simple to do), then importing from the Outlook file...sync. Maybe?

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