Adding Mail's 'previous recipients' email addresses to Address Book

I dumped all of the 'previous recipients' email addresses to Address Book today, but when I looked in Address Book they were all poorly organized, and there were many I did not want in there, so in order to save time (I thought) I deleted them, with the intent to go back to Mail and only add the ones I wanted, and in small batches so I could organize them better when I went back to Address Book. However, when I went back to the Mail application to re-add only the ones I wanted, I saw that the 'Add to Address Book' button is whited out. It appears that since I already added them to the Address Book, even though I subsequently delted them, Mail still thinks that they have entries in the Address Book. There appears to be no way to re-set them. I have looked all over through all of the help information for both Address Book and Mail and have found no way to overcome this problem. Any insights would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Brendan

Try Mail Scripts. I think the Add Addresses script will do what you want.

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