Applescript to change contact names to Title Case

That pretty well some it up. I've looked and looked and it seems this is not an easy thing to do! I guess the Proper() function from Excel doesn't exist in applescript?
Hope someone knows how to do this. MANY THANKS

Actually, you're using 10.7, so you can leverage cocoa. Create an applescript-cocoa application in the Applescript Editor (from the New from Template submenu), and play with the following code:
display alert properCase("test string")
on properCase(t)
set cocoaString to current application's NSString's stringWithString_(t)
return (cocoaString's capitalizedString()) as text
end properCase

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{code}
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