Have you tried switching to a different view of your Contacts folder, like
By Category or Phone List, to see if you can weed out the bad contacts
there?

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Jocelyn Fiorello
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> I have a number of blank contact fields before the names
> begin that I can't delete. The letter tabs to the right
> start with a field "123" then go to the letter tabs a, b,
> c, etc. It is annoying not to see the beginning of the
> alphabetical listing. Is there anyway to get rid of the
> blank fields..thanks jm