Unable to edit birthday field in Address book

I am unable to edit a card in address book properly. If I try to enter a birthday in the birthday field by either May 2, 1972 or 05/02/1975 no input of any kind sticks.
Can anyone tell me why and how to fix this problem?

There is something really weird going on.
If I start a blank test card and I type (all end in return):
December 1 1973, the field goes blank
If I type December 1 (return), the field changes to 1 December. Then, if I put my cursor in, I can go back and add 1973, but not with the orignal December 1.
I CAN write 1 December 1973, but not December 1 1973.
This is bizarre. It worked just fine before Lion.
In Canada (which is my chosen country and language on my keyboard when I set up my user) we say Month/Day/Year. In Quebec I believe they would write 1 December 1973, but in Ontario we would write December 1, 1973.
This is no longer intuitive and a huge time waster!

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