Trouble managing address book

I am able to add names to the address book, but I don't know how to delete them. I can drag a name to the To field of a new message, but I cannot add any names after that by dragging from address book. I don't see how to create a group in address book. The only heading under Group is All Contacts. I can't seem to find the answers to these questions in the Help menu. Can someone fill me in? Thanx.

Hi Ken
Are you getting to the Address Book through the icon in Mail, or are you opening it from the Applications folder? Note that you're opening the same contact database, but the Mail shortcut has fewer options. So, open AB from Applications (it is also in your Dock by default, unless you removed it).
To delete a contact, highlight it, and hit the Delete key.
To create a group, click the "+" sign on the very lower left of the Address Book window, or use the File - New Group menu.
Of course you can use the Mail-based shortcut as well, but you can't delete contacts or make groups, as you've found. However, you should be able to send to multiple contacts. Try this: in a new message, open the Address Book shortcut in the toolbar, and multiple-select the contacts you want to send the message to. (If you don't know, you can multiple-select by clicking the first contact, and then holding down the command key and clicking each new one. You can let go of Command once you're done.) Don't drag the contacts to the "To" box - instead, just click the "To" button at the top of the address book window.
Hope that helps!
Matt

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here goes:
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Thanks to jamesk8752's link...I fixed it!!! :-) That link he posted brought me to the fix. I wrote it out easier to follow. I want to mention that when I upgraded to Mountain Lion the issue continued. This fix did the trick
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