Double reminders showing up on my iPhone after turning on iCloud!
I have a 3GS phone (updated to most current iOS), and MacBook (MB)with Lion. I turned on iCloud and all contacts appear to be working/synching and calendar overall has synced. However, I keep getting double (or triple) reminders for various calendar events showing up on my iPhone now. I was also seeing all double entries for every event in iCal, but then unchecked "on my mac" calendars on my MB, and that rmoved most of my duplicate entries in iCal on MB. However, my iPhone calendar is a mess - reminders are listed twice (or more) and certain calendar events (randomly) appear 2-3x with no ryhme or reason that I can figure out. It is very annoying, and a total pain to go in and delete all the duplicate (or triple) events on my iPhone b/c you have to do it manually, individually, and my iPhone is also muuuuccchh slower now (dumb circle likes to think all the time when I'm accessing iPhone calendar or trying to make changes). Several times the calendar has frozen up while I'm trying to edit an entry so I have to exit calendar and then go back in. Any advice on how to get my iPhone calendar back in shape where I only have calendar entries showing up once (and reminders for those entries showing up once too). In changing to iCloud. it appears to have (randomly) edited the settings on some of my calendar events to say that I want to receive a reminder for that event multiple times (like "30 minutes before event", but showing that I want that reminder 3 times).
Second question - if I just want to turn off iCloud all together and go back to my manual cord syncing (which I didn't really mind all that much), do I just export my calendars & contacts to desktop for backup copy & then turn off iCloud on both my phone & my MB in system preferences? What are the important steps req'd to do this so I don't lose all my calendars/contacts? I'd be crushed to loose my (very full) calendar and my tons of contact entries... Also, I never did any photos/music/docs in iCloud so hopefully won't have prob there.
MacBook 2008, Mac OS X (10.5.6)