Address Book envelope printing weirdness

I'm having a strange problem when trying to print envelopes or mailing labels from Address Book. Basically, when I select a contact use cmd-P to print the address, the preview in the LH side of the Print dialog looks fine. But if I print, or use the "Preview" button, exclamation points are added before and after the State field.
So, "New York NY 12345" becomes "NewYork!NY!12345" in Preview or in the printed output.
If I print to PDF and copy the offending text to a Hex Editor, it appears that the sequence "E2 80 8E" is added just before the spaces (0x20) that separate the fields.
The same addresses synced on another Mac look fine and print fine.
Needless to say, it's driving me nuts! Any ideas?

Hi Waldo,
Just a suggestion...
Have you tried using Disk Utility to Verify and Repair Permissions?
It sure won't hurt anything even if it doesn't fix your problem.
Regards,
John
G5Dual 2Ghz  23" ACD  iSight   Mac OS X (10.4.8)    20" Intel iMac 

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