Busted Address Book... reset?

We use Address Book to move BlackBerry contacts around when upgrading or resetting user's BBs.
This requires trashing the Address Book contents each time, which is ok cos we use Entourage anyway.
However, I thought it would be a case of removing the com.apple.addressbook* files in ~/Library/Prefs, but this didn't work, so I removed the ~/Application Support/Address Book folder and then Address Book wouldn't work at all!! The application icon bounces in Dock then disappears. Now, no matter what I do I cannot get it to work.
Any help to the following would be greatly appreciated:
What files does it need?
How can I get it working again?
What does removing the files/folder i did cause such trauma?
What have Apple broken?!
Cheers
C

Was a permissions problem on file in Application Support/Address Book folder.

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