Mail to groups in address book

On previous Macs I was able to click on the address button in the New Message window and then click on the Group name in the address book and click on the "to" button and all the addresses in this group would show up in the address block of the message.
With my new Mac, when I click on the Group name I get a listing of the members names with one name highlighted in grey. To get all the members of the group as addressees I have to select or highlight each of them. Otherwise the only name to get become an addressee is the single name highlighted in grey.
Is there any way I can get back to the much simpler routine of my previous Mac?

Charles Sheehan wrote:
On previous Macs I was able to click on the address button in the New Message window and then click on the Group name in the address book and click on the "to" button and all the addresses in this group would show up in the address block of the message.
With my new Mac, when I click on the Group name I get a listing of the members names with one name highlighted in grey. To get all the members of the group as addressees I have to select or highlight each of them. Otherwise the only name to get become an addressee is the single name highlighted in grey.
yes, this seems to be a bug in snow leopard or at a least a missing feature. many people have complained about it.
Is there any way I can get back to the much simpler routine of my previous Mac?
the simplest thing is to type the name of the group in the "to" field. then Mail will automatically put all the members of the group there and you won't have to add them one by one.

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