Husband and Wife names in Contacts

Please help.
I'm trying to enter into Contacts the following: "John & Jane Doe". I am entering "John & Jane" as the First Name, and "Doe" as the Last Name. All seems fine, but at some point the system retains "John" as the First Name and changes the Last Name to "& Jane Doe".
My contacts are synched to my gmail account where I have it entered correctly. It stays accurate in my gmail contact list, but on my handheld it reverts back to the incorrect Last Name" soon after being corrected. I have changed it manually on my handheld as well as changed it manually within gmail contacts. This also used to happen before I began using gmail, so I don't think it's related.
Let me know if you all have any workarounds that I might not be thinking of. I even tried to "add a field" in the name section for a spouse.
I appreciate any suggestions.

I've got the same problem. Showed up after trying they 'sync google contacts' feature in Address Book/iTunes. Suddenly I have duplicates of all my Contacts. Address Book doesn't see any duplicates using the 'Find Duplicates...' feature. In Address Book I can only tell the difference between the duplicates by comparing the information in them. The new ones (presumably from Google) are missing fields like URL and birthday. On the iPhone, however, the names have these squares after them. These squares don't show up in Address Book (if they did it would make it much easier to delete them all).

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