All of my contacts are duplicated in my address book

All of my contacts are duplicated in my addressbook on my phone...Did I set up the icloud incorrectly? Does anyone know if there is an undo somewhere in settings? Thanks

Ok, so I thought I had fixed this problem, guess not. I have updated my os to 10.7.2 and installed the ios5 on my ios devices. The ios devises and icloud are working great. My problems is with the address book and it has duplicated all my cards so I have twice as many contacts now. In addition, I have additional blank birthdays on my calendar. I use to have Mobile Me and I turned that off. I did try and turn off icloud and delete everything in my address book and then re-started icould address. It worked to eliminate the duplicated cards for about 5 minutes. Then came the blank birthday events on my calendar. Any ideas?

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Start by answering the questions.
Picking up old contacts where - are you referring to the email address autofill feature when addressing an email?
Did you transfer the backup for your old iPhone to your new iPhone?
Are you accessing an email account on your iPhone that provides over the air syncing for contacts such as a Yahoo account, Gmail account, or a MobileMe/iCloud account?
I am seeing contacts that I know are at least a year old, and current contacts in my Macs address book are not being sync'd up.
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Hi all,
Strange one...I have got contacts in my address book on my iMac that are not appearing in my iCloud account? Its really strange they are in my address book on my iMac but are missing on the iCloud address book? 203 contacts in my iMac address book but 127 contacts in my iCloud address book?
Do anyone else have this problem? If so any suggestions how to pull them all through?
Cheers
Andy

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Blair84 wrote:
Double check your contacts email, and if its incorrect, go to their contact and change it and save it or you can delete the email you put in, and manually type it in.
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To force the iPhone to back up, plug it into the computer it was synced with originally, right click on the iPhone from the list, and select Back Up.
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1) In your iPhone settings, go to mail contacts calendars, select the account that has your contacts, slide the bar for contacts OFF.
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