Mail "From" name displayed oddly

Virtually all my emails, when received from someone in my Address Book, display the From name as "Joe Bloggs" - or whatever, as shown in my Address Book - both in my in-box and in the email itself when the email is opened.
So far, so good.
However, in at least one case the name is displayed correctly in the opened email, but as <[email protected]> and not as Joe Bloggs in my mailboxes. This is by far the minority and most appear as expected.
What have I done wrong with that Address Book entry? It looks fine to me, but I presume that I am overlooking something?
Looking through my Mail folder for this sender, I note that they are all displayed as being from Joe Bloggs, as expected, up to 22 September 2006 and as <[email protected]> since 21 November 2006. That's probably totally irrelevant, but there it is for what it is worth!
I use Mail v2.1 (752/752.2), Address Book v4.0.4 (485.1) and MacOSX.4.8 Build 8L127.

Thanks, Allan.
I infer, therefore that my sender must have changed their details at around the time the change took place? Their email address (a work address) is the same and I haven't, to the best of my knowledge, changed anything at my end - and in any event if it's theor client that makes the call then whatever I did wouldn't make any difference.
Irritating, but at least I know I've [probably] not done anything stupid!
I'm assuming the "Where in Mail" question is aimed at Kevin?

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