> i guess if i want to move them out of "phone" i should drag them back > to All > (in order to keep them in the AddressBook, but not on the phone) EXACTLY.. If fact if you select the Contact to be deleted from the Group in that Groups view and just hit the Delete key it removes it only from the view, not from address book itself. This is a good time to have a backup while you are experimenting with these things.