How do I stop contacts from duplicating (and more) on my iMac?

I swtiched from PC to Mac a couple months ago. I did a lot of contact importing. I also use iCloud to bring my contacts to my iPad2 and iPhone 4S. The phone and iPad contacts seem to be ok, but the contacts on my iMac keep multiplying! I have about 1200 actual contacts, but my contact list sows 33,000.
I already completed deleted my contact list on my Mac and then synched with iPad and got everything down to one each. Now the Mac keeps multiplying and i have not done any further synching! Any ideas?

You probably have duplicate accounts set up in iCloud, this would creat duplicates. I would recommend that you repost in the iCloud on my Mac forum and see if someone can give you some pointers.

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