Calendar & Contacts "freeze" with Mountain Lion

New Mountain Lion installation on 27 inch Imac from SL (also moved to ICloud from Mobile Me).  I have both calendar and contacts freezing all the time- I cannot even use the "address book" now called "contacts".  Icloud is spinning all the time on contacts trying to sync.  And all of the addresses I had on my mac are not there- it is all on Icloud - not what I wanted to see. With Mobile Me, you could designate how you wanted to sync- was the computer the master or the cloud.  Icloud just tries to take over.   My Imac has 20 GB ram - I should not have a power issue.  I would like my Imac to have the master file - not Icloud.  
When I click on something in the calendar- it takes almost 5 minutes or NEVER to get into it- I am constantly sending out crash reports.  I cannot edit my calendar, I cannot get into the address book.  Calendar is crashing on my IPad too.  But Contacts are Ok on the IPad.   So it is defintely a Mountain Lion issue with the Contacts program.  Mail is slow too. Lots of hesitation before you can look at any of the mail.  Again, with 20GB of ram on a new IMac, the applications shoudl be lightning quick.
I have an address book backup prior to buying my new IMAC- Is there a way to get rid of this file and go back to the old one and start over?  How can I designate the IMac as the master file?

I had this problem. It was caused by me choosing to sync Calendar with iCloud when I did the ML install but not changing the setting on my iPhone. You have to use iCloud for both devices or none. I chose not to use iCloud for either but to get things working again you will need to jump though some hoops if you are in the same position I was in.
You will need to enable iCloud on your phone for Calendars as well as your MB and sync both to the cloud and merge the two calendars onto the Cloud.
Then export each of your calendars in Calendar on your MB to a .ics file using the File/Export command in Calendar. I don't think you can use the Archive option as this will duplicate settings as well and will put you back on the cloud as you move through the next steps.
Disable the iCloud setting for Calendar on your MB under Settings/iCloud. This will delete all your Calendar data on your MB.
Import the .ics files back in to Calendar.
Disable the iCloud setting for Calendar on your iPhone
Sync via iTunes and you should be good to go.

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