Deleting a contact group on iPhone (not using mobileme)

I am trying to delete a contact group on my iPhone and can't find how to. I do not use Mobile Me which I have read a bit about but can;t for the life of me find a way to delete the group!!

For instance, I use Windows Address Book, because I don't want all my contacts from Outlook on my phone, but you could use Outlook or another contact manager. I went into WAB, found the extra group entries, and deleted them. This does not delete contacts in the group, if any.
Then on the next sync, they were corrected. If you have spurious ones left over from another sync method, in iTunes , choose "info", and down the page under "Advanced", "Replace Info on this iPhone", Choose "Contacts". On the next sync, it should look right.

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