Help with iCloud contacts. Need to bring in only one particular group of contacts into an iPad 2.

I have just updated an iPad 2 which belongs to my father but which has always synced with my Macbook. On my mac, I have set up a "group" of his own contacts, but since upgrading to iOS 5 it keeps pulling in my entire contacts list. I have tried turning off "Contacts' on the iPad's icloud menu, but it has removed all of my father's contacts and when I plug the device into the Macbook and try to sync the way I always had been, it won't let me just sync particular groups, I can only choose to sync "all" contacts. Does anyone know how to make the Macbook, itunes sync allow me to pick and choose what groups of contacts I want on this device?
Any help appreciated.

you can go back to sync with itunes 10.5 just like you did in iOS4 before.
If you want to continue your use/sync of iCloud Email ( most users want their @me.com ) :
On Mac Lion go  -> System Settings -> icloud , leave only the wanted sync options active, like Mail, turn off Adressbook sync plus all other unwanted items.
Power on your iOS device, tap "Settings" -> icloud and set it up to match exactly the same items like for the Mac.
Then on your next connection of the device to iTunes on Mac, you can select the various items that shall be managed using iTunes sync and not the cloud. Adressbook is under the "Info(rmation)" section.

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