Managing contacts for multiple email accounts

I am (as of yesterday) a convert from a Blackberry to the iPhone 4s (IOS 5.0.1) (32GB)
I have had iTune (10.5) on my computer for a long time, but strictl to manage an iPod for email accounts - no contacts or calendars involved. And I have never played with iCloud before.
When I purchased my iPhone at BestBuy, they copied my BB contacts to my iPhone local contacts.
FWIW, on my BB, I used BB Desktop Manager to synchronize selected Outlook contacts to my BB.
   Outlook, in turn, was used to talk to Exchange on my corporate network.
What I would like to do is a follows:
a)     Use Exchange, Gmail and Yahoo email all come to my iPhone. This is already being done.
b)     Using iTunes (or whatever) sychronize selected Outlook contacts to my iPhone
              I am assuming this is different than using the iPhone to synchronize Exchange contacts via Push. And I don't want to sync all 5K Exchange contacts with my iPhone, just the ~500 selected contacts in Outlook. All togethter there are about 1000 contacts in Outlook, 500 of which were marked with a sync category.
c)     Bonus points if I could take my Gmail and Yahoo contacts (all personal and mostly not in Outlook and certainly not in Exchange) and get them synched to my iPhone as well.
             I noted that there was an option to synch Yahoo with the phone and keep (at the risk of duplicates) local contacts. I did not see such an option for Gmail. What I did see was that there was an option to call Gmail an Exchange Account, and then synch contacts; but only if I really didn't have a Microsoft Exchange account defined, which I do.
How, if at all would iCloud fit into this picture
Dave

I recently saw news of an app to enable this, I think. The workflow was something like you open up the app, select a signature, then hit a button and it takes you to Mail and pre-pastes the signature into a new mail message. So I don't think it would work for replies.
I'm afraid I have no idea where I saw it discussed. Search the App Store?

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