Merging "Previous Recipients" to "Address Book"

I want to added email addresses from my "Previous Recipients" list in Mail.app to my Address Book. A lot of the previous recipients are already in my address book but only with name and phone number, not email. The PR list seems to recognize them by name and puts the vCard icon next to them and grays out the "Add to Address Book" button, but does not give any way to add the email to the address book. Since they are not in the address book they don't sync to my iPhone. Is there any way to merge the previous recipient's into my AddressBook? I'd even be happy to do it one address at a time if it didn't take too many clicks. Right now you can't even cut and paste the email. I just want to get the emails for the people in my address book, not every random person I have ever sent email to. I have OS X 10.6.6 and latest version of Mail and AddressBook.

I may finally be getting my head on straight, and understanding the problem of sequence of events -- I have been dense.
I had understood you to say that adding a fresh contact from Previous Recipients did not add the email address, but not realizing you had contacts for the individuals in the AB which were devoid of email addresses. I have no entries in my AB that do not have email addresses, but I would have thought the add to addressbook would have created a whole new entry in the AB, but creating something of a duplicate entry? I would not expect the entry to be new but devoid of email address -- are you reporting that this is case, and that the old contact with phone number is also there?
What is most peculiar to me, is that the vCard icon appears beside an entry, but per your report that email address is not in the AB -- per Mail Help, I would expect the match to only be made on email address and not on name.
I will have see if a test or two can be create? to better understand, and to then possibly find some resolution.
Ernie

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