Why Address Book Smart Group Doesn't Work?

I'm unable to find a solution to, or explination for, the following problem with Address Book and Smart Folders.
I added a custom date field for my contacts.
Set the date for one year and five days ago.
Created Smart folder with condition:
custom date 'is not within' one year.
Well, my contact I created with custom date of one year and five days ago did not appear in the smart group I created.
But it does appear in a smart group with condition 'is within' one month.
Seems that the Smart Group is ignoring the year. Doesn't seem very smart to me, lol.
Any advice on what is going on, or how to fix it would be greatly appreciated. I've spent hours looking for answers online and haven't found anything. Thanks in advance for your help.
tags: date field, date conditions, errors, problems,

Hi The Zack,
In case you think you are crazy, I can confirm that in this area you are not. I just switched from years of PC drudgery to the the new Mac religion. I even switched all my email/address/calendar stuff to pure Apple. Some bumps and hiccups, but still I guess the real test is when I log back onto my old PC I feel like I am watching a rerun of a black and white sitcom.
I digress. On of my hiccups is exactly the same as yours. Address Book is always able to search. It seems a good number of the names in my address book can not be found by typing in any part of their information in the search box. I could not fix this by duplicating the address entry, but I could get it work by hand typing in a new duplicate address entry. I am hoping you and Barry discover a cleaner solution to this.
Thx, Kmon23

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