Address Book automatically saving contacts

Address Book (Leopard) is automatically saving the e-mail addresses from any message I reply to. In Tiger, these addresses would show up in "Previous Recipients", but in Leopard they actually get cards in my Address Book. I don't want addresses to be automatically saved into Address Book, but so far haven't found how to turn that off. Am I missing something obvious?

The only thing I can think of is that you might have a Mail rule or automator action that is causing this.

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