Trouble deleting hames on my contact list

Help! I cannot delete names on my contact list. When I
click the contact tab, then highlight a name, then
hit menu delete does not come up.
Any ideas?????
Post relates to: Centro (AT&T)

Does the contact name have a symbol next to it on the right? It could be a SIM card contact and the only way to remove those is from the SIM manager under the applications.

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iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Contacts
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3998
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When I was working with my old job I had a contact list on my phone that was associated with my job's personal email address. Now that I have a new mac and am now a new full time student I would like to use my new uni email address as my default contact list. I have now made this change but have only just realised that I have been adding contacts for a period of months using this now redundant list.
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As I had previously chosen to sync with Microsoft Outlook 2010, but the trial period expired and the price to but it was far too high, so I changed to Syncing with Gmail. Therefore I wondered if Outlook may be affecting the iTunes sync even though it was not current chosen in iTunes contact sync option. So, I un-installed Microsoft Office 2010 and re-booted the PC. Now, pressing the 'Rest Sync History' button in iTunes no longer created new contacts in Gmail.
However, this did not completely solve the problem. With 0 contacts on the phone, and 0 contacts in Gmail, syncing the phone still re-created 41 of the previous contacts. Thew only way I could get rid of these 41 contacts was to deleted them one at a time from the iPhone itself. Doing it from Gmail, or un-checking the iTunes 'sync contacts' option to delete all contacts from the phone at once, did not work; the contacts still kept coming back.
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I tried searching for the name and then the associated email address using the iPhone but came up with no result. I searched for the name and then the associated email address inside of my HP HDX-18t (Vista Ultimate 64bit) but came up with no result. I tried searching for the name and then the associated email address using the iPhone but came up with no result. I searched for the name and then the associated email address inside of my Yahoo account (using my Vista PC, not the iPhone) but came up with no result. I searched for the name and then the associated email address inside of all of my other email addresses and devices but came up with no result.
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Thanks all who answer with solutions which serve to solve the problem.
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