Address Book/Mail in Snow Leopard Problem?

Prior to upgrading to Snow Leopard, I was able to address an email to an entire group by clicking on the address book icon in the new mail screen, clicking on the group, and clicking "To".
This no longer works for me. I now have to drag the group icon into the "To" field to have the email addressed to everyone in the group. If I do this the way I used to, only the first address goes into the "To" field.
Anyone else with this problem?

I finally run a search for "address book" within my Home's Library folder and deleted everything related to Address Book. Emptied the trash can, restarted the computer, and it is now working fine.
Obviously, backup (if you can) all your data before attempting this, but in my case, lost for lost, I was all in, and it worked.

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