Can I still manually sync contacts / cal in iTunes with iCloud on?

My wife likes to sync her iPhone contacts and calendar manually with Outlook / iTunes. Despite my suggestion that she convert to Goggle contacts or another wireless sync option, this is how she is comfortable doing it so she wants to leave it as is. Well I just got her an iPad and want both devices to have the same contact and calendar data? So I decided to turn iCloud Contact and Calendar syncing on (I started with just Contacts) through the iPhone settings.
Her contacts now appear on both devices (iPhone and iPad) but I was confused as to what happens to the way she traditionally syncs. For example I added a test contact in Outlook and then manually synced the iPhone w/ iTunes. That new contact appeared on her iPhone but now there are two Contact Groups on her phone - "iCloud" and "From My Computer". From My Computer has just the one test contact I added while iCloud has all the rest (which were originally all fomr my PC). And the new test contact was never synced to the iPad. So it appears that by turning Contacts on in iCloud, it essentially converted her "From my Computer" contacts over to iCloud.
Have to say I'm a little confused. I was hoping that we could keep the legacy relationship where my wife manually syncs her iPhone with Outlook / iTunes and then through iCloud have it backup whatever she pulls over from her Computer to the Cloud and then send it to all her devices (iPad in this case).
Any ideas for how I can acomplish this?
Thanks,

I solved my problem eventually by getting all the devices - 2 iphones, the newish pc and the older Mac on icloud.
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I opened all of my contacts and pretty much had to edit and drag them over almost individually as they weren't all in some sort of configuration that Apple liked - i.e. if an email address ended in ch or es or de it might not be accepted as a properly configured vcard.
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