Address book is making stuff Up

I have a group in my address book, not all the users have email addresses. I used to be able to drag the group to my Email and all the people without Email address would be skipped.
Now the address book just adds mac.com to anyone with out email address and tries to send an email to the address it just made up.
needless to say I get a lot of bounced email.
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <Victor Given>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <Thomas Reynolds>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <Joseph Gwiazda>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <William Sullivan>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <Vince Lobello>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <Roger Belisle>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <Thomas Bergstrom>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <William Utynok>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <Leo McDonald>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <Richard Jahns>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <John Wehrlen>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <Herman Hulse>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <Claire Wehrlen>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <Larry Erdman>... User unknown
<<< 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: [email protected]
550 5.1.1 <Jenoe Lukacs>... User unknown
etc. etc etc..........
G5,G4,PB17,PB12,iMac Mac OS X (10.4.4)
G5,G4,PB17,PB12,iMac Mac OS X (10.4.4)

You are not alone..
I am getting random contacts with the phone number repeating over 60 times. Deleting them is painfully slow.

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