How do I eliminate duplicate birthdays in ical?

I'm using Snow Leopard, and iCal on my iPhone shows birthdays twice for the same contact.
(One with an icon that looks like a present, and the other a pink dot.)
Things I've tried without success:
* Deleting the birthday, closing iCal, then reopening and reentering the birthday.
* Deleting the contact completely and reentering from scratch.
* Entering the data from my iPhone first then synching with my MacBook. And vice versa.
Thanks,
Paul
FIVE MINUTES LATER...
I JUST came across this from another user and it solved my problem:
keg55 Arizona
Re: iCal birthdays showing up twice? 
Aug 29, 2012 1:30 PM (in response to Anon M)
Try this..... open Calendars/Preferences/General and uncheck Show Birthdays calendar. Wait a minute then recheck it and see if the dups go away.

Wow, what a silly easy fix! And I was all mentally prepared for a big pain in the you know what. Thanks!

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