Address book groups getting mixed up (by Sync?)

My address book keeps getting messed up. Groups have new cards added to them (not by me), and Cards get extra email addresses added to them (not by me). I sync my address book to .Mac, but I never add or subtract contacts on .Mac. This has led to repeated problems with me emailing a group only to find later that several wrong people got the email. Is Address Book just a flaky program? I have cleaned out groups before, only to have them become "contaminated" again. Any suggestions?
thanks

Hi
I think the problem is with iSync and also with "remove duplicates". That;s where I found this same problem. It happenned to me twice

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