Merge (import?) Address Book Contacts (Exchange acct) to main group on ipho

It seems that I have Three main contact groups in the address book on my iPhone. One is sourced from an old exchange account (that is still active), but I would like to either import these or merge them into the main group (which is synched with Mobile Me). I use Entourage as an Exchange client on my Mac, and I believe that the hosted Exchange server runs Exchange 2004.
Please help! I would like to purge my phone of all Exchange interactions.

You cannot, on the phone at least. Exchange contacts are kept separate from other contacts. You'd need to export them some other way (e.g. by accessing the Exchange account in Entourage), and import them into Address Book/MobileMe.

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