Address book spontaneously deletes group

I've had this happen three times now:
Address book just spontaneously deletes one of my groups (two times with the same group).
Or else the group just vanishes somehow.
I'm just switched to Mail after using Entourage for five years, so I'm not a power user or anything. I may be missing something.
any ideas appreciated.
Ken

You may have to delete the address book plist file, and restart your mac. You can find it here:
Users/Username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist

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