Unwanted contact groups in iPhone

iPhone4 showing contact groups that no longer exist in Microsoft Outlook10. Extremely annoying to see group folders with no data in them. I have tried resyncing and restoring many times. Can anyone help???

When I updated the latest version for the iphone, it has groups in it now, and you can select which groups you want to sync with. This may work with multiple phones, but not sure. With Outlook 2003, I figured out a way to create groups and put contacts into them which really helps since I have 400+ contacts. I'm currently using about 30 different groups, but haven't field tested it yet. You should be able to create groups in Outlook that have only the contacts for each phone in different folders which can sync to different groups in the iphone.

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For instance, I use Windows Address Book, because I don't want all my contacts from Outlook on my phone, but you could use Outlook or another contact manager. I went into WAB, found the extra group entries, and deleted them. This does not delete contacts in the group, if any.
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One thing to try that might help out.
Go to settings > mail, contacts, calendars > your mobile me account.
Here you will be able to turn off contact syncing.
This will remove the contacts and groups from your iphone.
Wait for a few minutes, then turn contact syncing back on.
It will take a few minutes to sync back, based on the amount of contacts you have.
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I can do all of the above on my computer or on the web based icloud (which is also oddly unavailable natively on the iphone) but I cannot do any of the above on my phone.
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Seems like a huge misstep somewhere.

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