IPhone 3G S - mistake- downloaded all my outlook contacts

I made the mistake of uploading all my Outlook contacts from my PC to the iPhone.  Now I have over 100 contacts in my iPhone contact list where I only had 10 before.  How can I delete them?  Do I have to delete them individually?  Is there is way to select the 10 I want to keep and get rid of all the others?  Can I delete everyone than just add the 10 I want in there? 
Please help.  finding a person to call or text has become a huge seek and find now.  thanks so much

Depending how many contacts you started with and where they were from? were they on your sim card before? to remove ALL contact from an iPhone go to iTunes / info un-tick Sync Contacts and change Outlook to another addrss book that has nothing stored in it (ie. empty) sync your phone with that and that will leave your phone with no contacts. Next look for the backup where you had your previous contacts loaded (group) and re sync it to put them back. Chech iTunes when you plug in your phone that it doesn't sync immediately when you plug it in to eliminate future problems.

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