Address book has hundreds of empty groups - how to delete?

I'm not sure how this happened, but in my Address Book on Lion, I wound up with dozens (probably hundreds) of empty groups, all of them called "card".  I want to delete all of these.  However, I cannot even delete one: when I click on one and press "delete", I get the "pinwheel" and am forced to kill Address Book.  Anyone know what the problem might be, or how I could go about deleting all of these groups?  Is there a Preferences file I can edit?
Thanks!

I had never bothered to look at the Address Panel (never had a use for it) and now I see that it is keeping all the stale addresses that I repeatedly delete out of Previous Recipients! These addresses are NOT in my Contacts app! Come on, Apple—this is ridiculous.

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