"Automatically Complete Address" won't find Companies

I'm helping a friend who's using OS X Mail (1.3.11 (v622/624)) under OS X 10.3.9. She had a hard drive malfunction a few weeks ago and had to rebuild her address book. She claims that before the incident, mail would auto-complete addresses by both name and company. I can't get it to auto-complete by company any more. Is there a trick or is this not possible (i.e. she is mistaken about past functionality)?
For example, if I have a contact in Address Book with first/last of John Doe and Company ABC Co., I can get Mail to auto-complete if I type "Jo..." or "Do.." but if I type "AB.." I get nothing. I have tried with and without the "This is a company" flag checked.
Any advice?

Hi,
I have tried what you have been trying, and only get it to work from the Address Fields "Work' or "Home". This is in Mail 1.3.11, same as you. If I get an e-mail from a Company and click the add button for Address Book, it puts it in the "Work" Field... being a new entry. However, if the e-mail address has the name of the company/person in front of it to look like this: ABC<[email protected]> you should be able to get it either way. Since you are looking for "e-mail addresses", it seems the Compose window only scans the [email protected] type of entries... with the "@". Mine also, if I put a letter in the address box, it puts in the first one it sees (or the last one I used), but if I wait a second all with that letter come up, then it is just to pick the one you want. I have a company name starting with D, if I put D in the address line, all that show is e-mail addresses starting with D, not the company.
The magic is the little @ symbol.
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