Funky sync? many new groups with names from Notes field created

I've got a client using Tiger on a G5 iMac, and syncing both with dot mac to a PowerBook, and using PocketMac to a Blackberry (don't get me started about PocketMac and Blackberries.)
Anyway, I figure a sync caused this: today she opened Address Book and about 50 groups with names taken from her Notes field were there (things like "christmas card"). Some of these groups have cards in them, some don't. We had to restore from a backup. We use Backup, and I hope it's smart enough to take care of the sync stuff in the truth database when the next sync happens. I had Backup do a Restore of the entire ~Library/Application Support/Address Book folder.
Anybody seen this before? I'd like to prevent it happening again. Also if there are other files that Backup needs to be told to Restore in case this comes up again, I'd appreciate knowing about that, too.
Thanks!

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