Address Book - iTune Bug

Hi Everyone,
I'm using iPhone4, latest iTunes, and Mac 10.6.5...I think I have found a bug and don't know how to go back...
I copied a contact group in Address Book, as in having duplicated contact groups, after syncing with my iPhone by accident, I go back to Address Book and successfully deleted the extra duplicated group, but it still shows up in iTune, and now I MUST sync both groups and it's quite annoying, I went back to tried to backtrack my steps to see where exactly is the bug, now I end up with 2 untitled groups, and 2 Family groups that I must sync up with.
I guess my question is, how do I reset/erase Address Book so it would reset iTune all together, perhaps I should just start over...or is there an easier way to accomplish this?
thanks a ton,
Peter

I also had a simmilar issue. Empty the group you want to remove, then install in the iPhone Contacts Duster, run it, and then it will be removed from the iPhone. Then, in iTunes, the group will not be visible again.

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