Adding invitees to iCal event takes forever...

Since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, adding an invitee to a calendar event takes 30-40 seconds. I start typing a name, get the spinning beachball, and thirty seconds later get a list of matching contacts from Address Book.
Thirty or forty seconds is the actual time, not a guesstimate. And while this doesn't seem very long, I can't do anything else while I'm waiting. (If I switch applications, it stops looking where it left off.)
All of my software is up to date. I recently wiped the hard drive and did a clean install (I've tried everything I can think of to decrease this time) and I have about 5,000 contacts in Address Book.
The next option is to delete all of my contacts, but that seems unworkable (for obvious reasons.)
Anyone else experiencing anything like this?
/Jim

I'm having the same problem. From the number of unresolved problems with iCal under Snow Leopard I suspect that the application is in need of some serious refactoring. Clearly, the problem with inserting invitees is a problem with an index on the contacts application or the type of query that is being issued. I suspect the later since the mail application does not have the same problem.
Has anyone at Apple with access to source code looked into this? Is there a more formal way of submitting a problem report?

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