A TOTAL MESS: Duplicated contacts

Hi folks, I have iOS5 on my iPad and syncing on with my Snow Leopard Macs and Mobile Me.
THIS SYSTEM IS A TOTAL MESS. The first thing that happened with enabling mobile me/ cloud with my iPad is that it wiped out ALL My Contacts.  I recovered them from a back up but now I'm getting all sorts of duplicate Contacts and I cannot tell which is what culprit.  The whole poing of syncing is to keep everything the SAME.   This CLoud thing is NOT ready for prime time.  How do I prevent this mess from taking place???

Jefferis Peterson wrote:
I am simply trying to keep my contact lists synced between my desktop and laptop (Snow Leopard) and my iPad (iOS5).   About a 6 montsh ago, Apple asked me to activate or turn on  mobile me for sharing or something (and gave me the Cloud icon in Mobileme), and then when I installed iOS5 about a month ago, it wanted to make mobile me available, I think, on iCloud or something. Whatever the last step did, it first deleted all my contacts in Addressbook and then when I restored, it keeps duplicating them.
Snow Leopard and iCloud don't work together, your post is confusing enough that I really can't tell what you have done, but I know it is wrong.
Go to www.MobileMe.com and try to login, if you get told that you can't because your account moved to iCloud that is the first question answered, so if that is the case go on to www.iCloud.com and try to login there, if you can you should check that your contacts are there, post back.
PS iCloud came online on Jun 6 2011, so you could not have done this "6 months ago"

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