Duplicate contacts now in phone book

I just bought Mobile Me and the following day upgraded to SDK 3.0.
For some reason on my iPhone I now have 3 groups. All Contacts, All from my Mac and
All [email protected]
The All Contacts group has duplicates of everything while the other two have just one.
I don't understand why I need or now have 3 groups and I only need one, which would be "All from my Mac" since that is the correct one."
Can anyone assist me in deleting the other groups and help me just keep the one that is correct.
My sincere thanks in advance for your help.
Best Regards,
N

I, too, have duplicate contacts in the "All contacts" group, which is a group that's listed on the Groups page ABOVE "On My iPhone." Below "On My iPhone", there's either a new group: "All on my iPhone." It shows all contacts without duplicates. The break-out of groups, over and under the "On My iPhone" text is new on the 3GS. The 3G, on which I was running iPhone 3.0, did not have the duplicate contacts problem.
When I setup my 3GS today, I thought I did so to the letter of Apple's instructions.
I'm running iPhone 3.0 on a 32GB 3GS, and iTunes 8.2 on OS 10.5.7 on a MacBook Pro 17" (Early 2008). I sync contacts on Mobile Me, as I did on the first iPhone and the 3G.

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