Can't edit shared address book, which also shows over 400 "no name" accts

My wife and i each have an iPhone and a work/personal computer. In order to make syncing of contacts easier (yeah right). I created a shared account on our family MobileMe account. In that account i dropped all of our contacts and set up sharing to allow both my wife and myself to view and edit. It was a little ugly in 10.5 but it worked. After installing 10.6 everything is screwed up. Now neither of us can edit or delete contacts in the shared account. Also, even though we only have 507 contacts we also have an extra 395 "no name" accounts that have no data associated with them. I've tried everything. I've killed syncing of the address book on all computers, backed up the address book and deleted the ~/Application Support/Address Book folder and reset syncing etc. It seems sharing is no longer an option?

update: my address book is now up to 1009 contacts...seems every time it syncs it adds new "no name" accounts.

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