How to prevent duplicate contacts on iPhone3S

I need to find out how to sync my iPhone3S IOS5 with iCloud without crating duplicates.
It seems like my iPhone/iCloud created one or more extra set of groups, I might need a better set up. Some of the contacts appeared 4 times or more.
I'll appreciate some good explanations on this issue, please.
Thanks!

Is Sync Contacts with a supported address book app on your computer now deselected under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes? If not, deselect this followed by selecting Apply.
If all contacts are available in your iCloud online address book, on your iPhone go to Settings > iCloud. Turn Contacts off for over the air syncing. A warning message will be provided indicating this will remove all iCloud online contacts.
This will not remove the contacts on your iPhone that were synced direct with the address book app on your computer via the iTunes sync process.
Turn Contacts back on for over the air syncing with your iCloud account. You should be provided a merge prompt which you want to select.
This will eliminate the duplicates.

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