How to stop Mail grabbing wrong address?

Since doing one of the Snow Leopard updates (currently 10.6.7) Mac Mail on both our Macs occasionally pulls out a similar first or last name from our Address Books and switches the address already in the TO: field to that wrong address! Even when I double-check before hitting Send it frequently makes the change anyway and I only know when I look at the sent msg in my Sent Folder and it has the wrong email address. There must be a way to stop this.

What do you mean by already in the TO? If it is already there, it should not get changed. However, if you are typing it in, then stop on the first, correct one, and click on it. It will stay in the To.
It there are two valid addresses, with similar names, then you must be alert. However you also may want examine the Previous Recipients addresses (Windown/Previous Recipients) and remove any no longer valid or useful.
Ernie

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