Is your Mail extremely slow trying to send to a "group" from Contacts?

I can't believe how long this is taking to just add a couple groups from my Contacts into the To: area of a message in Mail. I've never had this problem with my older 10.6.8 OS. There are about 150 addresses in one group and less than 10 in another, yet, once I type in the group name, everything slows down to a snails pace in Mail and I can't type one letter without having the beachball of death start spinning. This is ridiculous! Is anyone else having these kinds of problems? Generally Mail in Mavericks has been working well for me - the amount of spam has decreased tremendously, but this new issue is a big problem!
Thanks for any insight,
kt

I am climbing the walls with this.
I have to type the text of the mail, then insert the group.
Forgot about changing anything later or adding a second group.
It takes several minutes to change one character.
Activity Monitorshows "Mail (Not Responding)", CPU running 99.9%
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