Address Book - Last Name Keeps Repeating Itself!!!

This has happened for quite some time, and it affects the vCards of those whom I've sent mail to.
For e.g., the To: field in Mail shows an auto-complete of my name as "Douglas Dielle Dielle".
When I go to the address book, the vCard entry indeed is shown as "Douglas Dielle Dielle".
Address Book seems to be adding the extra last name to the last name field because I don't use that field for my contacts.
I've corrected this umpteen times in the Address Book by removing the last name in the last name field and it's still happening. Cleared the previous recipients list in Mail and it's still happening.
Is there some option in the Address Book that I should take a hard look at?

Reason because Entourage some time back had this problem on filling the fields correctly when synching from my PDA. Filling in only the first name was the way to circumvent the problem.
I don't use Entourage anymore, but have also not altered the name format of my contacts in my PDA though.
Hope Apple fixes this soon! (Mail version: 2.0.5 / 746/746.2)

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Address book/Mail keeps corrupting some names in my address book.
I have had .mac on three mac's for a year and a half, syncing all my e-mails and address's.
For some reason certain names it keeps changing. eg. "Dad" becomes "Dad, Dad". This then syncs to my iPhone. So I delete the second Dad from one machine or the iPhone and sync it and they all go back to normal. Later when writing an e-mail it will spontaneously change back and will flicker between one or the other if you keep deleting and re-typing "dad" in the TO field or CC field.
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I agree that once you have two people called 'Dave' it then becomes necessary to have a surname and in-fact I've started adding all new people with surnames. I am however unlikely to ever have more than one entry for 'Mum' or 'Dad'.
Also when you say the names are in the e-mail address even if you don't see it my friend Jacob who's e-mail address I've recently added is [email protected] and it hasn't attempted to add Lord or Ermintrude as his surname or Jacob as his surname it's just left it as is, yet every single time i communicate with my dad it f*cks around trying to decide whether his name is 'Dad' or 'Dad, Dad' (see original post)
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Miss Jones - Being the Contacts name
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work 333ruthere (AIM)
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A Sample
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FunnyUAsk, Delaware wxyz-stuv"
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FunnyUAsk, Delaware wxyz-stuv"
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I thought I was close, but I do not think so, Paula
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