Add to Address Book from Mail

Hi,
What i'm trying to do is pretty simple. I recieve an email in the mail app and want to add the sender to my address book. I right click on the email, and click 'Add to Address Book'. The problem is it always mixes up the first and the last names. So 'Mark Jones' would have Mark as a surname and Jones as a first name. I have tried using different 'sort by' options (although i don't think that makes a difference).
It worked briefly for a couple of hours when I transferred to the iCloud.
This has been happening since I got a Mac with Snow Lepoard a couple of years back. Back then I did actually import my contacts from Gmail, although in trying to fix the problem, i've started with a blank slate but this still makes no difference.
I used to use Mobileme and now use iCloud to sync my mail and address book.
Is this happening to anyone else? I've looked around and found nothing.
Cheers.

I think that there is a bug in either Mail or Address Book. It seems that the sender's Display Preferences prevail if they differ from yours, so you then have to choose Card…Swap First/Last name.
A truly intelligent app. would identify which is First Name and which Last Name and would adjust them to conform to the Receiver's Address Book Display Preferences.

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