Lion mail-group emails are hit+miss

I feel that Apple could take a clue how to set up group emails from Outlook. Outlook is overly technical and convoluted but group emails work - Mac Mail is too simplistic and crude. Simple is good only if it works and covers all the bases - Lion group emails are hap-hazard at best. It is very frustrating to set up a group > send an email to that group > then go look at the people the email was sent to only to discover it randomly included some people in my email list that were not in that group, and did not send the email to some people that were in the group. Although crude and basic at least Snow Leapard groups worked properly. With Lion - group emails are hit and miss. I've tried every work around I could think of. Any ideas are appreciated.

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Regards,
Colin R.

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