Mail Previous Recipients sync with AB (bug or workflow problem)

hi crampy.
i am sycing AB (my PHONE contacts) with iCloud.
i have an issue in that Window > Previous Recipients does not sync via iCloud and does not sync with AB. there is an "Add to Address Book" option in here in Lion but this requires a /manual/ adding of /each/ of the hundred plus email addresses and - in the case of email addresses with an /existing/ contact it creates a NEW contact (as far as i can get it to work). PLUS even if i do go through and manually add ALL of these to AB on my Mac Pro (and get iCloud sycing with this software) i /still/ have the problem of all of this completely cluttering up my PHONE CONTACTS or i have to go through and /manually/ MOVE these to a new category from within AB to a new category with a title like "previous recipients"...
is there a good workaround to simply get PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS to my laptop and my desktop or even to get them up on something like GMAIL or imported into a CardScan database? i mean, where is this data and what formats can i export it to if there is no SYNC ability for this data?
TIA
- jon

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