Address book deleted contacts re-appearing - sometimes more than once

I'm having a real problem with .mac, leopard address book and my iphone.
I've got four contacts in my address book that are first names only. Two of these used to be first name and last name. Once I do a sync, these contacts will appear twice - once with first name only, and again with first name last name. I've tried deleting them from all places - .mac, address book and my phone, but as soon as I do a sync again, they re-appear. It's really starting to annoy me.
The other two were always just first name - these two sync perfectly.

Thank you so much for the welcome
This is my my first post, and I posted because after searching the boards I did find a temporary fix to the problem. It appears there are several threads about this problem with Address Book. A sample can be found here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6280012
I have searched for a contact in the "All" group to no avail. Deleting the .abcddb file did correct the problem initially, but the problem returned shortly after. For now I am scrolling through the "All" list to find the contact I'm looking for alphabetically. It's not the end of the world, just an annoying problem. I do end up finding who I need to in the end at least
Thanks for the reply

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