Find feature now partially disabled in Mail?

I frequently email my students using Mail, but the program that gives me the contact list of students is Windows friendly and the names are separated by semi-colons, so in order for this list to work with Mail I have to change the all the semi-colons to commas. Easy to solve except that the roster for each of my classes usually has 40+ students which changes througout the semester because of students adding or dropping my classes. My solution in the past has been to run Find and Replace in the To: field in Mail to substitute all semicolons with commas and this worked until last week when I installed Mountain Lion.
I am wondering, if this change was by design or an oversight?

Second this.
So far I'm really frustrated with my upgrade to Mountain Lion, nothing usefull was added, however business useability was destroyed by small things like this Mail issue and broken alarm snooze in iCal.

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