Contacts and categories in address book multiple duplicates

Hello; I am not talking about having one duplicate but 200-300 of a single contact or a category. So please do not redirect this on the usual sync+icloud discussions...
I have resetted my AB but today they started multiplying like rabbits again.
I noticed that on my mac and I immediately disconnected iclould: contacts on icloud have not been affected so I guess the problem is on this machine.
I also had added a new category 3 days ago and it did not show un on iCloud, so something is definetively happening here.
Only things I am doing is working on the iCloud control panel, deseletting and reselecting the contact box, deleting all the contacs on this machine and then pulling again the information from icloud.
Any suggestion on how to solve this?
Best,
Giuseppe

Try the steps I outline here: After Lion upgrade, my addressbook does not work++
Note that with iCloud (or any other address server) there is a Sources folder with subfolders for each address server source info. Those folders also contain an addressbook-v22.abcddb file that you should delete.
And, as someone recently pointed out, I originally called the file addressbook.abcddb, which it is not.

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