How to delete empty contact groups on iPhone 4

Hi,
I am using iCloud to store all of my contacts, calendars, etc.  About a week ago I had to restore my iPhone and when it was done resetting, I found that I had duplicate contacts in groups that fell under the 'On my iPhone' group.  Since I have all the contacts I want in my iCloud folders, I don't need these groups, especially after I deleted all of the contacts within them, leaving them empty.
My question is how do I delete these unwanted and empty 'All on my iPhone', 'Family', 'Friends', 'School', and 'Work' groups from my phone so that they don't appear in my contacts app at all. 
Thanks!

Hi, I have a similar problem:
There are groups that remain in my iTunes "Info" that won't go away even after resetting the iPhone and resetting via software update.
I cleared out all my contacts in the address book; went into finder - applications support - address book - metadata and deleted 4 items that have a *.abcdp extention. (except the apple address)
I even tried syncing with iCloud and using the empty iCloud database to overwrite what I have in iPhone then to my iTunes,
I tried downloading an app called Easy groups to delete the groups on the iPhone 4s ...
Still there are 4 empty Groups in iTunes.

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