Mail randomly highlights address field

I have a problem with Mail on our new iMac 20" 2.0 Ghz running Leopard 10.5.1.
For whatever reason, as we are adding addresses to the 'To' field of a new email, the 'To' field suddenly highlights all the addresses we've added so far, and then overwrites them with any new addresses we are adding. So it goes like this:
- Create New message
- Add one email address to the 'To' line
- Add another email address
- Add a third address
- About to add a fourth address when suddenly the whole 'To' field highlights all the addresses
- Add fourth address which (since all addresses are selected) overwrites previously entered addresses
It's as if we hit "Select All" (command A) as we are adding addresses to the 'To' line. It also does it on the 'Subject' line. I thought maybe we had a stuck key or something, but it ONLY happens in Mail, in those fields. The body of the message works fine. All other apps work fine.
I'm a designer and have used Mac for years. This only happens at home. My work Mac doesn't do it.
We are pulling in our Hotmail use HTTPMail plugin.
Please help it's almost impossible to create new messages at this point...
Thanks!
Greg

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