Why Address Book email addresses without first&last name stacked up under random names when moved to Lion?

Often in Snow Leopard I would add an email address to my address book wihtout filling in the name fields. For example, Iif I got an email from [email protected], I would "add to address book but never fill out the card completely with the first and last names. The card showed with just an email address. Just left it as the email address. I never had any problems doing this and it always showed up as a single email address on a single card. Oh woe is me! When I moved to Lion I now have multiple unrelated email addresses under some of these "email only" cards. These seem to be the folks who were cards as an email address w/o first and last name fields. Not only that, I have multiples of the "email only cards" and each one has a different set of mutliple "email only" addresses under it. But, at least one of the "email only cards" just has the desired email w no other info. Can I fix this other than manually?
I now have a disaster of an Address book.

ok, I've spent some time doing various scenarios.
I have managed to replicate one scenario which does as you say.
If my contact in the address book:
With name details as Peter Foo
email address: [email protected]
where there is an inserted space before the name peter, of course this is not instantly noticeable, but it is as if you hit the space bar just before typing the email address.
Then when I use the Contacts Sidebar in a Write message, it will add the email address like this:
Peter Foo <" peter"@somewhere.com>
which of course in invalid.
but in the address book, if highlight the contact, in the section below the email address in blue -if I click this to send an email the email address is printed exacly with the space and it will send as if nothing is wrong.
So i'm asking you to check those email addresses which insert incorrectly via the Contacts sidebar. They only do this for me if there is a hidden inserted space at the start of the email address.

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