IPhone and Address Book sync issue

I have an iPhone 3G (bought 7/08). Been a Mac user 13 years. "Mail" email is syncing fine. Address Book and iCal not so much.
When I updgraded to 3.0 a few months ago, most of my iCal events became doubled - meaning each event was repeated. Anyone know why or how to fix it?
And the same with my Address Book. If I choose "All Contacts" from the "Groups" folder, I get double entries. If I choose "All from My Mac" from the "Groups" folder, I get single entries. And neither the new entries from my Mac (MacBook Pro) or the iPhone update on the other A glitch with 3.0? Like I said, "Mail" (my .me account), is fine, iCal is updating through the "cloud", but I get double entries from everything that was already in my Calender before the upgrade. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

Since you are syncing contacts over the air with your MobileMe account and syncing contacts direct with the Address Book on your Mac via the iTunes sync process is the reason why your contacts are duplicated on your iPhone. Assuming you are syncing contacts with the Address Book on your Mac with your MobileMe online address book, any contact that you entered on your iPhone should be available with your MobileMe online address book.
Check your MobileMe online address book to confirm all contacts are available there.
If so, deselect sync contacts direct with the Address Book on your Mac under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes and select Apply.
On your iPhone, go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
Select your MobileMe account.
Turn Contacts off for over the air syncing. This will erase all contacts downloaded from your MobileMe online address book, but it won't delete contacts that were transferred direct from the Address Book on your Mac via the iTunes sync process.
Wait a minute or two for the online contacts to be deleted.
Follow this by turning Contacts back on for over the air syncing. You will be provided a merge prompt, which you want to select.
The duplicates will be eliminated.

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1. how do I format it? (how do I delete all contacts at once, just to clean it up)
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thanks

1. how do I format it? (how do I delete all contacts at once, just to clean it up)
You want to delete all contacts in the Address Book on your Mac?
If so with the All Contacts Group selected, select a contact in the All Contacts Group. At the Address Book menu bar go to Edit > Select All. Follow this by going to Edit and select Delete Cards. This will not delete any Address Book Groups you created, which can be deleted separately. Any Groups you created will be empty after deleting all contacts from the Address Book.
2. after the clean up, how do I sync my iPhone contacts with address book? (I need to send all my contacts that I've got now on my iPhone to my Mac's address book)
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OK,
just got back after talking to a 'guru' ay my local Apple store.
He also 'factory reset' my iPhone and it then perfectly synced with his
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file and recommended to erase it, reboot my system and everything
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I can't fully tell from the information you have provided, but I suspect your duplicates resulted from having one set of contacts in your "iCloud "account and another set of contacts in your "on my Mac" account.
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Can someone please explain to me how Mail is able to use the Address Book contacts - if in fact it does use the Address Book contacts - on my laptop and my desktop?
I am currently on Thunderbird but have other software that I am told syncs to Address Book. This would make my life easier. I am thinking about converting to Mail instead of Thunderbird (to cut out one step in the "food chain" but I want to be sure I am making the right move and understand what I am doing.
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I can't tell you how much help this is.
Yes, iPhone Contacts sync to Address Book, via either iTunes sync or MobileMe.
This is sort of funny isn't it? That they are called Contacts on the iPhone and Address Book on MobileMe and on my laptop?
I believe the iPhone autocomplete checks both your Contacts AND any recently used addresses--there's no built-in method to clear the recently used addresses, as far as I know.
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