Disable icloud back up

I have an iMac OS X (Snow Leopard) and at present back up goes to iCloud, although this doesn't actually appear to happen as what is on iCloud bears no resemblance to what I have stored on my iMac/iPhone!
How do I disable iCloud back up?
Also, I want to update the Safari bookmarks on my iPhone and make them the same as the ones on my iMac, how do I do this.
One final Q, I look in System Preferences for my Mail and Contacts icons and they're not there, why?
Help would be appreciated.
Thanks

I would try unchecking the iClould backup option in the Summary pane for the iPod in iTunes.

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