All mail, contacts, calendar copies to my applications

all of my Outlook emails, contacts, calendar entries have been copying to my documents and to my applications.  I don't know if this is from ICloud or what but it is a problem.  My Macbook Pro is VERY slow now and takes forever to do anything is only 6 months old with all upgrades available????? please help.
Also, no matter what i do my contacts on my iphone 4 are doubled and tripled.  i have done verify deal but still nothing.

It's been awhile since I had to do this, but I felt the same pain a few weeks ago...and having used the Palm OS for the last 8 years, I accumulated a lot of contacts.
Anyway, I went down the CSV road and started cleaning my data and mapping columns, but that got pretty tiring and led to lots of lost or mis-mapped info. I found I had much better results exporting to vCard format.
To net it out:
1) Open Palm Desktop
2) Choose "Address"
3) Select all
4) File -> Export vCard file (all contacts in one file)
5) Open http://address.yahoo.com (assume you have Yahoo! account)
6) Choose "Export/Import" (upper right-hand area)
7) Follow the Yahoo online "import" instructions
8) Setup iTunes to sync w/ your Yahoo! address book
9) Sync and done! (post your results)
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