Keep Contacts sorted by last name?

By default, Windows Contacts sorts by the "name" field, which displays contacts in order of their first names. Although it is possible to specify sorting by the "Last name" field, and have this setting stick by setting "Remember each folder's view settings", Windows Contacts first displays the entries in order of "name" and then takes 35 seconds to redisplay in order of "Last name" (tested with a 2.66 MHz computer with 2.5 GB RAM and 1454 contacts on a computer with a clean install of Vista).Although Windows XP also defaulted to sorting by "name", changing the sorting to "last name" resulted in Windows Address Book showing the entries immediately using the desired sorting method.A workaround for the Vista behavior would be, within each contact, to set the full name field to have the last name first, but each contact is added by default in "First M. Last" order, and it would be a bother to change over 1500 contacts to such a format and make sure each new contact is added in the nondefault form.Have I missed the setting to get immediate "last name" sorting in Windows Contacts, or has Microsoft taken something that worked well in XP and crippled it in Vista?