Address book: cursor jumps to Note field

Sometimes when I'm entering data in Address Book, the cursor jumps to the Note field—I discover this when I look at the Address Book window and see that the data I thought I'd just entered in the Address field is in the Note field.
This does not happen consistently, but it sure is frustrating--any suggestions?

I haven't experienced that, but since upgrading to Leopard, my wife and I are experiencing an issue where the cursor tends to jump around while you're working on a card. Well, that's not exactly right.... say I've selected John Smith in the list and his name is somewhere in the middle of the viewable names on the list. Address Book will keep him highlighted but, without warning, spontaneously scroll him down to the bottom of the viewable names in the list. It's distracting and it also resets the cursor from the place where I was editing - as though I was the one who selected his movement.
Other instances have had the address list totally reset, instantly scrolling to the top of the list and highlighting the first name on the list, cutting me off mid-edit of another card. Has anyone else had this issue? I think it may have something to do with address book sharing - it feels like a refresh cycle or something.

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Address book jumps to note field

When I'm entering information into Address book, the cursor regularly jumps to the note field. I can't figure out what might be causing it to do that. It does it from just about any field, and then I have to go back to the field I was in and retype what I just entered.
Any ideas what it could be?
Anyone else having this problem?

Yes, I'm aware of this problem too. The cause is that Address Book is trying to send its recent changes to the syncing database (this happens for all users, not just .mac sync users). This triggers a save which for some reason will confuse the card editor. I don't know a good workaround for this.

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I use three Macs, all of them do it. Has anyone else encountered this?
It seems to be since the ghastly faux leather Lion address book has been introduced, ( I assume Mr Jobs had nothing to do with that )
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Completely maddening thing that address book - and no other app I have ever encountered does, as you are typing information into the notes field of a contact, it will suddenly jump the cursor up to the start of the page, often leaving one word half finished and adding onto the front of some other bit of information is a totally crazy way.
I use three Macs, all of them do it. Has anyone else encountered this?
It seems to be since the ghastly faux leather Lion address book has been introduced, ( I assume Mr Jobs had nothing to do with that )
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Whew, took me a long time to find out where this info is stored, but in...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata/
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B144126F-ECB2-11DD-A2CC-0003938BD526/ABPerson.abcdp
The encrypted Note seems stored in that.
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Thanks for the help. I tried both methods with the same results. I then tried deleting both files at the same time and also the file com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist, then emptying the trash and re-launching the program. I unchecked the box to export the notes field and it worked for the first export only. After a second export the box was checked again and the vCard had the notes field.
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Address book: cursor jumps to Note field

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