How do I permanently delete a contact?  Backup Assistant keeps putting it back!

I'm trying to clean up my contact lists.  I have some contacts with lastname, firstname, and some the other way around.  I used backup assistant to get them all the way I wanted.  Problem is when it synched with my phone, now it has both sets of contacts.  I've tried eveyrthing I can think of, even simultaneously deleting contacts from my phone and from backup assistant, but those bad contacts keep coming back!  Help!

Remove it from the BA and then remove it from the phone and then sync....   If that dont work you can unpair BA from phone and then make changes from both locations and then log back in...
Under Settings / Applications / Manage Applications / All / Sync Services / Clear Data.... This wont delete anything from phone or BA just stop the sync process until you log back into BA.

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