IChat always adding contacts to "On My Mac" (cf. Address Book Server)

Originally asked by oprah_noodlemantra in the iChat discussion group for Snow Leopard client, but I’m reposting here as it’s related to Address Book Server…
oprah_noodlemantra said:
I've been trying an approach where I move everything out to our Mac OS X Server so I don't have to sync contacts, calendars and so on… I moved all my entries to the [Address Book Server] which worked fine but when I opened iChat… to edit the contacts, selecting the correct cards for all the contacts… it automatically adds that card to "On My Mac"… I've noticed that FaceTime.app only reads "On My Mac" cards as well…
I added:
Encountering exactly the same issue here on the Snow Leopard Server and clients I set up at our office. When joining an iChat contact to a Contacts stored in an Address Book Server card a (slightly incomplete) copy of the Address Book Server card is created in the “On My Mac” location and it’s this new local card that iChat connects to.
I don’t want these duplicate cards in my Address Book. The ones stored on the Address Book Server should be enough.
This whole local vs server card access issue seems… unfinished (and at a lower API level, if indeed FaceTime exhibits the same issue). Is there a solution to keep these cards on the Address Book Server but still reference them in iChat, without ending up with a duplicate local copy of the cards? Do I need to log this in Radar as a bug?

I have the same issue, and it is quite annoying. It seems as though Apple got the CalDav, CardDav, Push Notification, and iChat servers working just well enough to release, but didn't really get them working well.
I would file a bug with Apple, as I have not found any way of preventing a local copy being made.

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