Auto populate iChat buddy picture to Address Book?

I don't know if this is really an Address Book question, or an iChat AV question, but here goes:
I am trying to have the buddy picture that my friends use with their iChat or AIM screen name transfer over to Address Book. Right now, I see their buddy picture in iChat, but when I look at their Address Book card, it just has the blank picture.
I know I can set their picture manually in Address Book, but I don't want to do that. I just want whatever they have showing in iChat to be automatically transferred to their Address Book entry.
Does anyone know how to do that? Is it even possible? I saw no reference to this particular question anywhere in the forums.
Thanks
Kyle
PowerBook G4, 1.67 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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