How do I stop google from deleting my contacts on my mac through iCloud?

A few weeks ago I deleted my google contacts - I never liked having them there - but now Google is insisting on syncing my contacts. I kept saying "no" but it came back, and somehow I lost all of my contacts last week. Today I restored them from Time Machine back into my address book on my mac, but now Google is saying they want to sync again. I've googled solutions and haven't found any that work with the current iCloud. I sync my iPhone, iPod touch and iPad with my MacBook (running 10.7.3) through iCloud. I only get this error on my mac. I've turned off all of my non-mail sync settings on all of my devices and still I can't get this to go away. Any ideas??

Had no idea that was there - hopefully that will fix it. Thanks! It amazes me in all of the posts on this topic, that it was never mentioned that there is a google button in preferences.
Crossing my fingers - thanks!

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