Nesting of names in Adresse Book, bug?

I´m getting a weird thing with my contacts, on several contacts it seems like new sub-adresses are added on one main contact like this:
the main email-adresse (on the left) is not added by me to the contact-list, but is probably there as a cc in some mail.
Anyone having the same problem?
Cheers,
Henrik

In preferences, under the General tab, you have four choices for sorting names. You have two choices starting with "Show first name", where you click in the circles.
Your next two choices are in the "Sort By" box. If you want your contacts sorted by last name, then you need to check "Following last name", then choose "Last Name" in the sort by box. I prefer to sort by first names, so I have "Before last name selected, and "First Name" in the Sort By box.
Open Address Book, open Preferences, select the General tab, then move the Preferences window to the side of the Address Book window so you'll be able to see what happens to your contacts list as you try different combinations of the suggestions above. Hope this helps.
fivebass

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