ICS People App: Syncing GMail Contacts and Google+ Circles imports deleted and un-merged contacts

Hi everyone, I have the Galaxy Nexus running ICS on it.

I spent a great deal of time "cleaning up" my Circles and my Contacts directly in GMail and Google+ from my PC. However, when I sync my gmail contacts into the People App, it imports all of my deleted contacts, plus all my removed from circles contacts and additionally, it brings all my contacts in un-merged (duplicate contacts which should be resolved after I merged them in gmail).​

Does anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong or how I can just import my "clean" list of contacts?


I have a great deal of contacts and I can't see having to merge them back within the people app or deleting all the unwanted contacts.

Thanks for all the help

Alex