'Show Mac Contacts' creates duplicates

NOT SOLVED AS OF - July 10, 2015 Does ANYONE know how to solve this issue: Checking the 'Show Mac Contacts' in Skype Preferences creates duplicates of all my address book contacts. I've searched the forums and there is a moderator who has offered a 'solution' to this on a similiar threads:http://community.skype.com/t5/Mac/Duplicate-Mac-contacts-in-Skype/td-p/2034871However many people, including myself, have responded that the problem has not been solved. Yet any similiar questions have been archived and this answer given as a solution. Anyone have a sloution?? Thanks for taking the time to read, and possibly offer a solution to all the users who are encountering this problem. :

I am using Outlook 2007 on my PC.
I am not using Mobile Me; rather I am running the sync on my PC using iTunes. The duplicates were on both my iPhone and my computer, but they didn't always appear to be identical. It is somewhat complicated by the fact that I use Plaxo to update my contacts folder(s) on my PC.
I worked with Plaxo to combine all contacts folders, and then I went through each item and deleted all duplicates. Then I synced with my phone, and finally got it down to one unduplicated list. This was tedious, since I have over 1,000 contacts.
Now I am getting ready to sync, and I am not sure what to check on the sync menu. It asks whether I want contacts added on the phone synced to my Collected Contacts folder. Why add it to a separate folder instead of my main contacts folder? Does this add a separate item that you then use to update the main folder?
Thank you and sorry for all the questions.

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