Address Book & iPhone Numbers

With Verizon I used selective unblocking of my caller ID with contacts in my Address Book. Basically "*82" entered before the number. Evidently GSM devices like iPhone can't use *82, but instead "*31#"
The problem is, my Address book is populated with phone numbers that begin with *82.
Is there any way to do a mass find and replace in Address Book and replace all "*82" with "*31#"?
If not, before I start the laborious process of manually replacing *82, is there a better way to deal with this? Maybe some kind of custom prefix feature?

Maybe Smart Groups would help your problem...
http://tips4mac.blogspot.com/2007/07/creating-smart-group-in-address-book.html

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I've been searching for a solution to my issues but haven't been able to do so, neither on any forums or anywhere in the internet.
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