Address book email address incorrect in mail.app

so, in address book i click on the email address of the contact and select "send email" it opens Mail, and auto-completes to the wrong email address. i've cleared the previous recipients and have also restarted my machine and deleted the contact and started over. also, when i enter the email address manually, it does not show up as an address book contact (as in, it doesn't create a blue "box" around the name)... this is the only contact affected by this.
anyone else experiencing this? any help? thanks!

You’re vaguely talking about timestamps here, without specifying whether they are “sent” or “received”.
The Date header is set by the sender’s mail client and corresponds to the Date Sent column, not to the Date Received column.
The date that Mail shows in the Date Received column is the date that appears in the latest (topmost) Received header (which you can see doing View > Message > Long Headers), and is set by your incoming mail server.
Obviously, the timestamp set by the sender’s mail client doesn’t have to be the same as the timestamp set by your incoming mail server when it received the message, amongst other reasons because both the sender’s computer and your incoming mail server may be configured incorrectly...

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