Yeah, ok, so I'm an idiot.
To clarify this, Backup Assistant is in the settings, and I was thinking I'd uninstalled it, but what I'd done is unchecked it in the settings so it wouldn't run daily. I wish I could disable its background task as well, but I can't. I'd also like to know how I can delete the backup that is in Verizon's cloud, as I don't want Verizon to have a copy of my contacts, and find it very unnecessarily and rather sinisterly intrusive the way they stick it in the settings, where I can't uninstall it, and where it runs automatically when the phone is going through initial setup, and the casual user just clicks through everything, and you even caught me off guard, and I'm not a casual user.
When using a Windows Phone, if you use the phone the way it was designed, the contacts are backed up on SkyDrive so there is no need for a backup on Verizon's servers, and the less intrusion into my life, the better, is the way I see it.
Well, guys, it looks like Verizon found a way to stick bloatware onto a Windows Phone in a way that we can't get rid of it. Put it in the settings. There goes one of the benefits of Windows Phone - easy deletion of carrier bloatware....
