Contacts synchronize with iPhone 3g OR!!! iCloud. Need help.

Hi,
Since about a week my contacts only synchronize with my iPhone 3g OR icloud.
Depending on wich selection i make in the adressbook preferences for "standard account".
When i put it on "local" it syncs with the iPhone, on "iCloud" with the cloud.
It started about a week ago when i noticed that all my contact on the mac suddenly are doubled.
So i started deleting the double ones.
After doing that i had some of them on the iPhone and some in the Cloud ( and all in the adressbook ).
Then followed another advise ( from the apple support community ):
    Exported all the contacts from the adressbook on the mac.
    Deleted everything from the Mac, iPhone and the Cloud.
     And then put em back in.
Since then i have the aforementioned Problem. "Cloud OR phone"
Thanks for any help in advance.
2008 15" Macbook Pro running OSX Lion
iPhone 3g with the newest iOS (not jailbroken)

If i get it right this means i cant have an iphone 3g and and iphone4s at the same time, both being in sync with my contacts?!
exactly.
If you need to have calendar/contacts/etc in sync, you must opt-out of icloud and not use it on any device. Instead you go back to itunes sync - have iTunes on Mac/PC sync to iphone3g and 4s. But once you start using iCloud, the 3G is out, no sync anymore to the other(s).

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