Cannot Drag to Search field in Mail

Hey There, and Happy New Year!
I used to be able to drag an email from the list to the search bar and have the sender show up and all emails from that sender would be sorted in the mail list window. I could then choose another field like subject and the mail list window would reflect that choice.
Now I can't drag anything into the search.
And "Copy Address" copies the WHOLE ADDRESS FIELD including the address book name like this:
James Cameron <[email protected]>.
In Leopard, it just copied the actual email address: [email protected]
BOO.

Keep in mind that most of the code for all the apps was re-written for Snow Leopard, so I am hoping things like that were just overlooked and will be corrected eventually as people point them out. But, that might be getting too close to speculation, so that's as much as I'll comment.

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