How do I get Messages to show contact names instead of phone numbers in notifications?

Originally, notifications from Messages.app would show the contact name sending the message. I'm not sure what caused it to stop, but now all notifications show up as the phone number of the contact. In the actual app, the names look fine. Is there some way to get contact names to show up again?

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Depending if you are using Buddy Lists or not then this setting is supposed to be fro the Budfdy lists but will effect the Main Window display
This item lower in the same View Menu is supposed to be the one fro the main Messages window (it has to be the "Front" window)
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