My iPhone4 is having problems with contacts

My iPhone4 has suddenly stopped recognising one of my contacts as being a fellow iPhone user and is now not giving me the option to iMessage that number. I tried deleting the contact and re-entering the data but the same things keeps happening - no iMessage option.
Strangely, the contact appears twice - once with facebook data and once as a number. I can't delete the contact with the facebook data - it offers the option but if I hit delete, nothing happens. If I try adding the phone number to the facebook contact it initially gives me an option to enter an iPhone number but then it switches it automatically to "home". If I try to edit it back to iPhone, I can't because there the option is gone.
I have tried turning iMessage on and off and that hasn't helped. I've tried re-booting and turning it off and on and nothing seems to be working.
Can anyone suggest how I can resolve this?

Just to clarifty, if I try to add a new contact, the option of putting in an iPhone number is not available at all.

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