Could someone please explain the syncing process? I have duplicated contacts on my phone and don't know anything about syncing. I appreciate your help.

I'm a new Apple convert. I synced my iPhone4 with iTunes library and not correctly, so ended up with each contact repeating from 4 to 8 times on my phone. I also lost some music from my iPhone's iPod due to this syncing. Would you please help guiding through the syncing process and what's the easiest way to delete these duplicates? Thank you.

To get rid of the dupliate contacts try this:
Set up your contacts on your computer as desired. Make sure that autosync is disabled in iTunes/Settings/Devices. Then connect your phone, click on it in the device list, choose the info pane on the right side, move down to the Advanced section and choose "replace all contact info on the phone" This will overwrite the contacts on your phone with the ones from your computer address book.
After that your contacts should be syncing fine.
Syncing is explained here: Overview of syncing iPhone or iPod touch with your computer
and here: iPhone and iPod touch: Syncing and merging data

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