Lsal-desc not updating names

Hi all,

Forgive me if this is a silly question; we've had some staff changeover in the last few months and we're making up for some lost institutional knowledge.

We recently sent an email that referenced inside sal as the name field. This isn't a field I'm familar with, as I use esal for my print pieces. Unfortunately, we got an email telling us that the email went out to one customer addressed to "Barb and Frank," but Frank is deceased. We've dug through the record a million ways, and the relationship between his individual record and the household has been inactivated, his record has been marked as deceased, the salutations have been regenerated, etc. He shows up nowhere on the record except as an inactivated relationship...and, apparently, on the inside sal, but I can't actually find that through the client view.

We need to figure out:

1) Why lsal_desc apparently didn't update,
2) How to fix lsal_desc on this and any other problems records, and
3) Is there any reason we need to use lsal_desc, instead of just using esal1 if we are happy with how that is formatted?

This all seems to be above my technical knowledge, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Beth