Anyway back to the Groove stuff...

Groove Contacts are not like Outlook contacts or those in your mobile phone!  Every Groove User has a Groove .VCG, which is their Groove v-Card.  This contains User information such as name, email address and phone numbers, the user's Public Key and Home Relay Address.  These contacts are used to ensure secure communications between members and help with routing traffic and member presence.  You can't just "create" one like and Outlook contact.  You must be sent one from a member or download it from a Groove Directory Service.

This is an extract from the Groove help file (which is very good)

To search for and add new contacts to your contact list in the Launch bar, do the following:

1.       Click Add Contact.

2.       In the Find User dialog box, enter the name or text you want to find.

You can search using "Full Name", "First Name", "Last Name", "Business E-mail", or "Personal E-mail". The search will return all contacts in which a match is found in any of the valid fields. For example, the search string "john" would return contacts named "Andrew Johnson" because "john" is the first four characters in the "Last Name" field. As a rule of thumb, the more specific you make the search string (by typing more characters), the more specific and exacting your search result will be.

You can rearrange the order of the columns in the Find User dialog box by dragging them. You can also remove columns (except for "Full Name") by right-clicking any column header and unchecking the name of the column to be removed. You can restore a removed column by right-clicking any column header and checking the name of the column to be restored. Any changes you make in the Find User dialog box apply only to the current search session. All defaults settings are restored the next time you open the Find User dialog box.

3.       Optional: Check Include Public Groove Directory if you want Groove to include this directory in the search.

4.       Click Find.

5.       If Groove finds a contact match, select it in the list.

Status icons display next to contacts in the list to allow you to see if they're currently online. However, contact matches found in the Groove Public Directory always initially display with an "Unknown" status icon until you select them and add them to your contact list.

6.       To see more information about a selected contact match, click Properties.

For example, you might want to take steps to verify the contact's identity.

7.       Click OK to add the contact to the list.

Adding a workspace member to your contact list

As new people become members of workspaces you belong to, you may want to add their contacts to your personal list. Right-click the member you want to add and select Add to My Contacts.

You can also add a member to your contact list by dragging and dropping.