Cannot modify or delete an address book contact group

I created an Outlook 2010 contact group in my address book, saved it to my local contacts folder and then copied it to our firm's public Exchange based
folder so all in our company can access it for mailings. However, once I copied it over it seemed to lock the group, I can't add or remove contacts and it won't let me delete the entire group either. This was never a problem before and I
can't find squat as to how to fix it. Please help! When I try to double click the group in contacts it says "Cannot open this item" and when i try to delete it says "operation failed".

By "public Exchange based folder" you mean public folder, right? Do you have rights on that folder?
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