IOS 4.2 causing contacts list to freeze

Hi. My contacts list has really started giving me problems since I installed iOS 4.2. Sometimes the list will freeze completely for a few minutes and then suddenly start working. Other times, scrolling through contacts will become extremely choppy. At times, when I search for a contact, the results will start flickering on the screen. There is nothing that leads to this behavior. The phone simply starts behaving strangely and then returns to normal itself. Is anyone else experiencing this extremely annoying problem and can you suggest any solutions.

Having similar problems. My phone started freezing on contacts or calls, phone running hot, battery running out quickly. The problem repeated if I did a restore. I eventually had to do a reinitialize and rebuild everything by hand, which seems to have made it work for a few weeks at least.
Now the issue has shown up on my iPad. There I've tried deleting all contacts (had to do this by telling iTunes to remove them all). But there are still hangs and the "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" tab in settings hangs. I don't want to reinitialize it because I have several movies on it that I'm planning on watching tomorrow on a long, long flight. If the iPad works.

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