Duplicate Contact Records

A Mac user and 3rd gen iPod owner (have been loving it forever). Until recently, synching contacts/calendars has been going just fine.
Today I checked my contact records on my iPod and found that all of my contact records have been duplicated onto the iPod. I went in and removed the iSync.vcf file from the iPod and re-synched and got duplicates again. I checked my Address Book and don't have any duplicates in there.
Double-clicking on the .vcf file on the iPod opens Address Book and alerts me that there are 116 duplicate records that will be updated. I say sure and it "updates" them. If I quit Address Book at this point, then open (again) the iSync.vcf file on the iPod, the dupes are still present.
Any ideas on how to overcome this problem? I searched here but most others with this problem are using Outlook and I am not (using Mail and Address Book).
Thanks in advance.

mm. yes, i checked for that type of answer right away. i deleted all files in the contact folder except the isync.vcf file. sadly, after synching again, the dupes remain.
not only that, but isync doesn't sync my contacts - itunes does. and "all of the non-isync.vcf files" were only the setup and instructions file.

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