Sending mail to group... help!

I have created a group in Address Book... Some of the people have two or more email addresses in Address Book (home, school, work, etc.). When I go into Mail, and put the group in the "To:" box, all the names appear... but Mail automatically defaults to the first email listed for each person. Instead of selecting each person in the message, can I easily set the "primary" email address for each person. For example, I want my particular group to only send to the ".edu" addresses of each person. How can I easily change this?
Thanks for the help!

Copied from Address Book Help.
If group members have multiple email addresses, you can choose which address you want to use when sending mail to the group. Select the group, then choose Edit > Edit Distribution List. Select which of the members' addresses you want to use.

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