iOS 5 and contacts

[yukon8170]

I am having an issue getting all of my current contacts into iCloud. To start with, when I moved to iCloud, I had about 5 duplicates of each one of my contacts. I was not able to delete them, if I removed them from one computer, it would be repopulated with the info from iCloud. So I turned off my Internet connection and deleted everything and reenabled it. Everything was deleted from all of my devices. Then I turned the Internet off again and reimported by address book with each contact listed once. Now when I reenable the Internet, iCloud chooses a few select contacts (maybe 20%) and those are synced across all of my devices. There isn't any rhyme or reason to how it is doing this.

Any one experience something similar to this, or does anyone have any suggestions?

So far, not too pleased with iOS5. It's caused hours of lost productivity.

Thanks in advance!