Inexplicable contact replication .. over 10,000 entries of the same contact and same email address

I use Entourage 2004, with MAC OS X 10.4.10.

Recently, I have had an experience where my address book gets filled
with literally hundreds to thousands of entries of contacts where the
name of the contact and the e-mail address of the contact is exactly
the same.

I have deleted these contacts over and over again and they keep coming
back.

I believe this renegade duplication of contacts happens when I receive
an e-mail from a specific person. That e-mail from that specific
address is when I first noticed the problem and that e-mail address is
the one with the most contact entries. Literally, this one contact
had over 10,000 entries in my address book where the e-mail address
and the name were exactly the same.

Also, buried within these duplicate contacts are the e-mail addresses
from my address book that also end up duplicating in my address book
as well.

As an example:

I might have 10,000 entries in my contacts of the following
(fictitious) contact:

Name E-mail
sue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx sue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

bouncebacks@xxxxxxxxx
MAILER-
DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"another e-
mail address from my address book"
"another e-
mail address from my address book"
"another e-
mail address from my address book"
"another e-
mail address from my address book"


I suspect that one of the e-mail addresses in particular is causing
the problem.
Any ideas?

Thank you.
MM4the1
.

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