How to see iCloud Groups in Address Book?

Hi,
I want to remove the Contacts set in "On my Mac", but keep seeing the Groups in Address Book. All my Contacts are in "On My Mac" & iCloud as well with identical Groups. But if I remove the "On my Mac" Contacts in the Address Book on my iMac, all my iCloud Contacts still show under "All Contacts", but the Groups are empty.All Groups still show up online & on my iPad, as these are seeing the iCloud "copy" of the Contacts.
The reason I even started looking at this was after upgrading to Mountain Lion I get Double Birthday notifications, and Double Birthdays in my Calendar under subscriptions. After experimenting with removing the On My Mac Contacts set, it is definitely the two sets that is causing the doubling. (Removed the On My Mac Contacts set, Birthdays just showed once, returned them, back up to doubling)
So if anyone can suggest a solution I am all ears!

ShonaIL04,
It's amazing that it has now been close to three years and no one else has needed org missed this function with the exception of the two of us.
On top of that, my original post was written when I was in 10.6.8 and the same issue is present with 10.9.5!!!!
I'll guess we'll have to wait another few years....

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