Sync Alert Keeps Duplicating Contacts!

About a month or so again I switched my contacts from Outlook to Google for what I thought would be an better way to manage them. Everything was fine until I contact any of my iDevices to my computer and open iTunes. Now I get a Sync Alert everytime, even with my iPad 2 which I turned all contacts off on for fear of duplication.
The last time I had the issue, I figured I would just let it do what it thought it needed and fix everything in Google but that was a complete waste of time as everything came back, even the stuff I deleted.
I went in the iTunes preferences and turned of auto-syncing for both devices but still Sync Alert come back adding the same contacts or disrupting the one there. Even if I'm NOT syncing but just charging the device with iTunes opened it comes up... ***!? I'm frustrated at this point because even when I hit Cancel, it laughs at me an still syncs!?
I just don't get it and you would think this would be an easy fix but I still see people posting about this issue. I can someone please help me!
Thanks!

Not sure if you're still fighting this but I had the EXACT same problem.
Finally fixed it by turning off "sync with google" in the Address Book application preferences
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