No luck. Google didn't show any duplicates. The problem is that I manually entered all of my contacts when I first got the phone. Everything was normal until I uploaded them to google (had to do it the hard way, which I found in another thread here...converted contact list to a file to send to google etc.) When I sync'd the phone with google, I suddenly had the entire list that I had created manually, PLUS the one I retrieved from google. I have people set to show only google contacts, and not phone contacts, thus only seeing one per person. However, I can't seem to find a setting in handcent to do the same thing. I hope that clears things up a little bit.
Thanks for trying btw.