Mail address book bug or is it me?

Udsing Leopard 10.5.2. When I copy an address from mail to address Book the names reverse. John Jones becomes Jones John. Happens regardless of how AB is configured. Any Ideas on how to get this feature to work correctly?

I managed to fix it, I think -- as long as it stays fixed. I deleted all the AddressBook preference files I found on my computer. There were three of them: one in ~/Library/Safe Preferences (com.apple.AddressBook.plist 12-21-03). and two in ~/Library/Preferences (com.apple.AddressBook.plist & com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist). In AddressBook I have my ordering preferences set as Display First Name Last Name, and Order by Last Name. Don't know if trashing all the plist files for AddressBook will do the trick for you, but it seems to have done so for me.

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Think i've found a bug and was hoping someone could confirm i'm not the only one with it.
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Hi ALSVLA, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
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Hi dp13.
Do you have any Address Book plug-ins or system utilities that could interfere with Address Book? In the Finder, go to each of the following folders (if they exist). What do you see there?
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To make accurately reporting this information easier, you may open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, type the following command (you can just copy it here and paste it in Terminal), and press <Return>. You can then copy the output of that command from Terminal and paste it in your reply to this post:
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Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.
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