I did a little testing with a CSV file and Thunderbird.

I exported my Collected Addresses folder as a CSV, opened it in Excel 
and removed all but the email addresses. I did Tools+Import in the 
Thundebird address book creating a new address book. Thunderbird like 
most software needed to have a name associated with the email address 
and used the portion of the email address before the "@" as the name.

I created a new list and was able to drag and drop the addresses in to 
the list.

Sam.