GMail Contact Groups in Mail

Hello. I recently decided to check out GMail's new IMAP feature with Apple Mail in Leopard. It seems to be working fine except that I do not know how to use GMail's contact groups. I run a soccer team so I send out updates to the entire team at once by using a group I setup in GMail. Is there a way to use this group while using Apple Mail? It seems Mail just uses my Address Book on my Mac, which has all my individual contacts, but no groups. (Can you even setup groups in Address Book?)
If anyone knows how to use GMail groups in Mail I would appreciate the help! Thanks.

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