Contacts duplicating

I cannot figure this out for the life of me.
I have my contacts in my iPhone, Yahoo, and Mac Address Book (connected to Yahoo) althought a few might appear in one and not in the other yet. I bought a new 4S which ATT synced my contacts for me. I just synced my Yahoo contacts via iTunes and what a complete mess it made.
1. Mac Address book made duplicates with one of the duplicates with duplicate phone numbers.
2. iPhone had duplicate contacts
So I deleted all the duplicates with duplicate phones in Mac Address book. Synced again.
1. Now those duplicates were erased but it also erased the original contacts on my iPhone leaving me with very few contacts - 80% missing. I head over to yahoo and the same thing.
So I started rebuilding my iPhone contact list from letter A and did B. Synced again to test.
1. Synced with Yahoo okay but made duplicates in my Mac Address book.
Can anyone help me out here before I go any further?
Do I have to unenable my Yahoo account in Mac Address book?

I am having same problem. Turned off mm on iPhone4 and iPad and computer. Then scrubbed contact data and calendar on computer. Then reset sync data to repopulate mm but when I check mm data for contacts after sync, the mm data has already duplicated itself, or it never wiped clean in the reset. I too am about to give up on mm for sync of contacts and calendars. Seemed to start when I loaded os4 on my 3G iPhone.

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