Oddness with KDE addressbook

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

Good evening,

I doubt this is actually a balsa issue, but maybe someone else has seen  
this and already solved it.  I have a mostly KDE system, so my address  
book is in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf.  Most of the time, this  
works just fine, and balsa correctly suggests names as I type in the  
TO: field.

However, every now and then (no predictable pattern) I have one of two  
problems.  First, if I add an address with balsa's "Store Address..." I  
have to manually fix std.vcf because the new entry had different line  
endings from the rest of the file.  (It's been a while since it  
happened, so I don't remember which of the old or new entries are linux  
or PC line endings.)

My new problem is that balsa seems to be picking up the FN: entry.  I  
use "last, first" as my default display, which is in the file as  
"FN:last\, first" and starting recently, balsa has been showing the  
display name as "last\\,first <email host>" and when I click or tab out  
of the TO: field, it breaks it into two addresses "last" and "first  
<email host>".  I haven't updated balsa in a few months, so I assume  
it's related to some change on the KDE side - although kaddressbook  
looks like it also hasn't changed in over a month.

If anybody has any thought of how I might start troubleshooting this, I  
would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Jack