Empty double quotes appearing in contacts

I recently discovered that several of my contacts had, below the name, a pair of quotation marks with nothing between them. Further searching leads me to conclude that it's somehow tied to the Nickname field. Those where this occurs used to have contents in this field but are now empty. And the iPhone itself doesn't offer any means of removing the empty field.
I've tried making changes inside Address Book itself, where that nickname field is no longer present on any of those affected entries, but no joy.
Can anyone offer any suggestions as to how I might remove these unsightly things? They're not causing trouble, just annoying to me.
FYI, my iPhone is a 4GB model purchased the day they became available and has the latest update applied (1.1.2).
= Steve =

I've already tried both. But to be absolutely clear...
I have completely removed any content from the Nickname field in the iPhone itself for those contacts exhibiting this problem, and then sync'd with my MacBook Pro. No relief.
I've then gone to each of those contacts in Address Book on the MacBook Pro and confirmed that the Nickname field isn't even present. In order to try and force a change, I even modified some of the other fields there. No relief.

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