the answer to a problem from hundreds of pages back that a few people, myself included suffered from:
If during typing in TO: field of texts, after one contact you do not get a ";" and a space to type in a second one:
Uninstall the Classic word completion cab. This breaks that functionality on newer build of ROMs it would appear. After you uninstall, soft reset and functionality should be restored, but you have to use the crappy word completion
If anyone finds a fix to this, do share