[Macpartners] Fwd: Bizarre Apple Address Book puzzle

[George Stephans]

   To Macpartners,

    The MIT help desk suggested I ask if any of you have experience with 
this problem.  Any information would be most appreciated.

   Cheers,
   George

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George S.F. Stephans
24-412 MIT
(617)-253-4237

Begin forwarded message:

>   Dear Mac help,
>
>    I've been experiencing very mysterious behavior of my Apple Address 
> Book entries.  I'm running OS10.3.8 with Address Book 3.1.2(v321).  
> Most of my entries have blank first names, some for historical 
> reasons, some because they are one-word group designations.  
> Periodically, some of these addresses mysteriously obtain first name 
> entries.  It seems to happen repeatedly to specific entries.  It is 
> possible that it only happens to entries I created from scratch in 
> Address Book, as opposed to the numerous entries I imported from an 
> old mail system using vCards.  I have not been able to correlate this 
> with any other activities.  I go into Address book, edit the addresses 
> to remove the first names, and then they appear again in a day or so.  
> I looked through the Mail and Address Book options and could not find 
> any clues about how this might be happening. This is very bizarre.  
> Any suggestions for what is going on?
>
>   Cheers,
>   George
>
> =================
> George S.F. Stephans
> 24-412 MIT
> (617)-253-4237