Address Book- Contacts Sync Problems!!!

So, I got my iPhone and synced it to my iMac when I bought it 3 weeks ago. I found out that my iPhone doesn't sync the contacts I input into it onto my Address Book, (My sync only works one way) and was wondering if anyone knows how to fix this.
Also, this weekend, when I synced my iPhone, my Contacts list started duplicating random contacts. Some of the duplicates are exactly the same. However, there are also some duplicates that are past versions of the contact cards. (i.e. I edited the card, but my iPhone sometimes loads the past versions).
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I'm very annoyed)

I have this exact same problem. I've manually de-dupped my iPhone contact list at least 5 times. This is not a good use of my time and it's ineffective. I'd like the sync to work correctly and have a way to automatically get rid of duplicates on my phone.
Or at least a way to delete multiple contacts at once instead of one at a time.

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