Mail not adding Sender to Address Book

When I have a message from someone I want added to my address book, I hit the menu button to Add Sender to Address Book, yet nothing at all happens, and I end up having to enter all the info manually. Any ideas as to why this occurs, or how to get it working?

The shift, command, Y didn't work, and when I opened the Console app, and tried the menu command, it didn't work, and I didn't see anything showing up on the Console, relative to Mail.
What I did see on the Console was endless lines like this:
MacKeeper Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacKeeper Helper", ...): No such file or directory
Nov 14 11:10:04 stevens-computer com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[106] (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper[40111]): Exited with exit code: 1
Nov 14 11:10:04 stevens-computer com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[106] (com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Do you have any idea why it keeps doing this, despite my not having MacKeeper on my computer? Could there be a hidden file I can't find? And do you know what "Throttling respawn" means?

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