Attaching "faux notes" to Address Book contacts

Lots of CRMs and Personal Organizers let you attach multiple notes to a Contact, along with a datetime stamp for that Note. Address Book does not, alas.
Leopard's Email client, however, let's you create free-standing Notes for your Inbox (or wherever you drag them). But these cannot be attached to a contact.
My "workaround" for this is:
1) Create a new "ON MY MAC" mailbox called "Faux Notes"
2) Create a New Message for the contact(s) you want to affiliate this "faux note" to
3) Save it as a Draft
4) Drag it from the "Drafts" folder over to your "Faux Notes" mailbox. This shall ensure that you cannot email your note off to the contact(s) by mistake. The Faux Note also becomes read-only at this point.
5) If you want to edit or add to that "Faux Note," then you must first drag it back to the Drafts folder.
Voila!
Benefits:
A) Faux Notes are searchable in Spotlight (as are regular Notes).
B) Faux Notes show up in Smart Mailboxes such as those created by the handy "Mailboxer" utility (http://earthlingsoft.net/Mailboxer).
Now, I just wish I could figure out how to attach a button to the View Contacts pane of Address Book that would kick off an on-they-fly Spotlight query for mail to/from all the email addresses affiliated with that Contact, as in:
[email protected] kind:email OR [email protected] kind:email OR [email protected] kind:email
Feedback welcome! I'm a recent Mac convert after having PCs for the past 15 years.
Regards,
Alan.

I placed this question up here almost two years ago, and the problem has since resolved itself. I think because I have upgraded my mac's operating system (OS) several times since then.
You might want to check and see if you're using the latest version of Mac OS X (currently 10.8.4). If you're not up-to-date, go into the App Store on your Mac and see if there is an OS update waiting for you. That might help.
Good luck.

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