No Sync and Duplicate contacts

Hi.
PC Suite is not working for me. New Outlook contacts are not making it into the phone. Also the contact folder I can see in the phone browser on my PC contains duplicates for all contacts but there are no duplicates in my phone.
Very frustrated. This started happening a while back but a rebuild of my PC seemed to fix it. Now it is happening again. I suspect my Phone is confused.
Using Nokia 6822 with WinXP Pro Sp2.

PC Suite = is the whole application
PC Sync = Synchronise icon in PC Suite launcher. This is used to synchonise with Outlook.
If you now use "Contacts" icon to empty the contacts from phone, it will not work and the reason is the same as with PC Sync (the synchronise button which syncs with Outlook), the phone sync is "stuck".
Just try to use the PC Sync and create new settings, PC Sync will check the contacts and I would expect minimal amount of dublicates if you choose update in both directions.

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On your iPhone go on Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendar> Under "Contacts: in "My Info" select That new contact you created on your Mac.
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