E50 number to contact name matching bug?

Hello,
I just got an E50 (RM-170, software V 07.36.00).
It seems to have a very irritating bug in the way numbers are matched to contacts in the 'recent calls' lists:
- an entry in the list will show the contact name *only if* the number appears only once in the contact list;
- otherwise the entry only shows the number.
This happens all the time with my well organized (synced ith my PC) contact list where 2 members of the same family typically have entries with different mobile numbers, but same landline numbers. In that case the landline number will never be matched to a contact name.
To me this is not a 'feature', but definitely a bug. All other (non-Nokia) phones I have owned have the much more usable behaviour of showing in the calls list the name for the first (or last - who cares) contact that matches a call number.
Is there a software update that fies this bug for the E50?
-- FL

cjlim wrote:
What you are supposed to do is to save all the different number for a contact under the same contact name eg. Joe Soap - Home, Joe soap - mobile etc.
Well this is exactly what I do: I have
- Joe Soap
   - Home (xxxxxxxxx)
   - Mobile (yyyyyyyyy)
But I have also:
- Jane Soap
   - Home (xxxxxxxxx)
   - Mobile (zzzzzzzzz)
And this where the Nokia bug hits:
When Joe or Jane Soap call me from their home number xxxxxxxxx (which is the same for both contacts):
- any other (sensible) phone would match xxxxxxxxx to a contact (Joe or Jane Soap - I don't really care which Soap);
- but the Nokia insists on showing the bare number xxxxxxxxx, without matching it to a contact.

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