How to remove a song stuck on the iPhone?

I purchased a song in the iPhone iTunes store then synced my iPhone with my computer, only to discover that someone had already purchased the same song there..
Since then that song has been stuck on my iPhone, no matter what I do it appears in the 'Purchased' playlist on it, which means that when I put the track in my playlists I get repeats of it on the iPhone..
Sorry if that is unclear, the problem is kind of hard to explain, and I may just be being pedantic but this really annoys me! I've tried removing all my songs and uploading them again as well as uploading then removing all of the purchased songs from my computer onto the iPhone but whatever I do it won't let me remove this track and it's starting to bug me!
I thought that maybe resetting my whole iPhone would remove it but I don't want to do that as I would probably lose a lot of data.. So I suppose my second question is, does iTunes store all of your contacts so that if you whipe the iPhone clean you can sync it again and retreive all your contacts, photos etc?

I had a similar problem and I finally got rid of it. I had bought a single song from itunes and synced it to my iphone. A few months later I bought the whole cd which included that song from a record store and imported it to itunes. I deleted the previously purchased copy from my library but the next time I synced my phone I had two copies of that song again.
Try deleting the song from your itunes library. The next time you sync your iphone it will say something like "you have purchased content on your iphone that is not in your itunes library, would you like to transfer this content to your library? If you don't transfer it it will be removed from your iphone."
Select not to transfer the content (assuming you have no other new songs you need to transfer) and you should be rid of the extra copy.
I hope this makes sense and helps.

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