Lightroom 3 keyword suggestions

It seems that Lightrrom 3 keyword suggestions aren't, well, suggestions any more, as they were in Lightroom 2. Can I revert the behaviour back?
Let me give you a real example. I take pictures with Bob in them. Bob is often with Suzie. In Lightroom 2 if I added the keyword "Bob" to a picture it would recommend "Suzie", which saved me some typing.
No longer in Lightroom 3 - it seems to just give me a list of recent keywords - I'm not actually sure how it differs from the 'Recent Keywords' set displayed immediately below. Any ideas?
Many thanks
Tom

I agree, in version 2 the suggestions in my experience were usually meaningful. It was particularly so with extended family photos where if I entered a name then LR2 would come up with keyword suggestions such as spouse/childrens names. In my nature or landscape photography LR2 would come up with useful related suggestions from previously entered images. eg. If I typed "pelican" LR2 would suggest items such as "bird", "beach", "flight", "waterbird", "sea", "water" etc. This feature made keywording effortless when adding a number of keywords
Now it is as good as useless. The keywords suggested bear little or no relevance to the first keywords selected. Keywording is tedious again. In my opinion this amounts to a bug and I hope that our friends at Adobe both listen and rectify it soon.
Please can someone from Adobe comment on this.

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