Duplicates and more in my address book

hi,
my address book is creating duplicates and triplicates etc. of each entry on it's own... everyday i "look for duplicates" and merge all the records, then the next day have duplicates and triplicates again.
how do i stop this? at one point i was attempting to use .mac to sync my address book, so i could maintain it on two computers. but i stopped since i was not able to get it working properly and the wrong records were getting over written and disappearing. I suspect my problem is related, since it started around the same time.
any help is appreciated.
thanks.

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