IPad/iPhone Contact Duplicates

I have an iPad2 and an iPhone4 and am syncing my email, contacts and calendar using Google Sync.
The contacts sync back and forth no problem, changes are almost immediate, which is fantastic.
The issue that I am having is when I respond to an email to a contact that is not in my Contact database it creates this "ghost" contact that I can't edit (for example, when I respond to a craigslist ad, or emailing an "unsubscribe" email address to remove my email address from a distribution list. Even my own personal contact entry has a duplication. I had an entry for myself with my personal and work email address. I have changed jobs, and updated my contact. However, when I compose a new email it still has my old work address listed in the autocomplete field. Is there a way to edit the contact list that's been manually saved on the phone/ipad?
Any thoughts/suggestions would be fantastic.
Thank you

denisfromtoronto wrote:
Is there a way to edit the contact list that's been manually saved on the phone/ipad?
No there is not.
The Mail app with the iPhone and iPad stores all email recipients in a list of previous recipients. The email address autofill feature pulls from your Contacts or address book and from the list of previous recipients.
Different from the Mail.app on a Mac, there is no access to the list of previous recipients to add a previous recipient to the address book or Contacts that is not already entered if wanted or needed, or to remove a previous recipient from the list - not at the present time anyway.

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