Address Book and Label Printing

I've been trying to do this and have run into a sea of problems/bugs.
A lot come to light after switching back and forth between the Layout and Label tabs. This seems to render the preview window inoperative. For example, after choosing print from the file menu then clicking Layout then clicking Label in the Print Dialog Box:
1) changing font is not reflected in preview pane
2) clicking "country" check box is not reflected in preview pane
3) zoom control does nothing
4) changing label type does not update preview pane
After printing and then trying to print a second time, I notice that some setting are not saved. For example, the Country, if it was checked, has reverted back to being not checked and the font has reverted to Lucida Grande 12. More importantly, the label type reverts back to the default 5161, but only after every second print. (ie choose print from file menu set label type to 2163, print, select print from file menu: label type is 2163, print, select print from file menu again and label type has now reverted to 5161
When selecting a different Label from the layout menu, ie Avery 2163 Top, the Preview Pane is only partially updated. The addresses are relocated on the page but a full 8 1/2X11 page is still shown. if I cancel the Print and return, the preview page size has been resized to reflect the smaller label size.
I've also a great deal of difficulty getting Address Book to print correctly on Avery 2163 labels. These labels are 2" wide and the program seems to want to print on 8 1/2 inch wide paper. As a result, only the left hand portions of the address appear on the label, and even that is not properly spaced vertically to appear correctly within each label. I was able to get it to print correctly only when I selected "Scale to Fit Paper" in the Paper Handling Section
These problems don't seem isolated to my machine (A PowerPC G5). I was able to replicate on an intel imac.
Has anyone else had problems printing labels?

Warren: looking at other threads out there it doesn't appear that you can print the spouse/partner/friend field. One poster suggested using Avery DesignPro for Mac, which merges with your AddressBook, and allows you to select which fields to include. The only caveat is that it doesn't show it working with Lion (os 10.7). You can download it here:
http://www.avery.com/avery/en_us/Templates-%26-Software/Avery-DesignPro-for-Mac. htm?N=0&refchannel=c042fd03ab30a110VgnVCM1000002118140aRCRD
Hope this helps.
-McCArch
(also posted this in the other thread where you asked a similar question)

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