Address Book Multiple contacts?

For some reason, when I drag new contacts to a group this has somehow merged all the contacts? i.e each contact or primary email has 100 or more duplicate work contacts. I could delete one by one in edit card but I have around 1000 conacts all with multiple emails which is very time consuming and makes the mac run very slowly. All I need is the header email as I'm colating a data base ..
any ideas
Thanks

I performed the following to troubleshoot but multiple instances of Personal Address Book remained:
* Manually deleted the Google contacts. TB is no longer creating multiple instances of abook.mab;
* Added a new contact to one of the Personal Address Books, the new contact appeared in all of them;
* Renamed abook.map, started TB and a new one was created. Still four instances of Personal Address Book were there, however they're now empty;
* Restored abook.map and addresses returned with four instances;
* I tried deleting several files within the Profile directory as I know one of them is creating these instances. I haven't found the one as some have no effect on the Address Book and others bugger up TB, as you would expect.
I know there is a file with some kind of configuration doing this, I just haven't found the one to replace.

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