Previous Recipient List in Mail not saving Addresses

I've got a MacBook Pro here with plenty of hard drive space and 10.4.10 that is not saving previous recipients in the previous recipients list of mail.
At first, it was just not holding addresses more than 3 or 4 days old, now it's not keeping anything more than a day at best.
Any thoughts? Should I just delete the previous recipients preferences file in Home/Library/Address Book, or is there more?

Welcome to the discussions, Ethan.
There is no separate Previous Recipients file - they are stored in the AddressBook.data file, along with your Address Book contacts.
What happens when you email someone and then look at the Previous Recipients window in Mail? Is the address you have just used there? If you watch the window, do older PR entries just disappear? Does it affect entries that are in your Address Book? Is your Address Book also affected?
AK

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