Messed up address book

I keep trying to clean up my address book by deleting duplicate entries, combining cards, and eliminating obsolete entries. Once I do this I make a backup of the corrected file. When I reload this file it brings back all the stuff I deleted and corrected and overwrites it. It is as if it refuses to ever actually delete anything despite the fact that it warns me it will overwrite my database. I have also gone through the trouble of deleting EVERYTHING from .mac and then re-syncing from my computer. same problem - - all the garbage comes back from the address book. Essentially both .mac and my address book are useless at this point. any ideas, anyone?

how did you import them? you can delete all new contacts (they are in the "last import" section in AB). then reimport the contacts correctly.

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