Contacts not appearing in the Mail address panel

If I am in Mail on my MacBook the mail program knows nothing about any addresses in my contact list.
The Address Panel and Previous Contacts lists are empty.
If I open my contacts list - I see all my contacts properly.
They also sync properly between my phone and macbook.  I can add a contact to my pone and a second or two later it appears on my MB; and I can add a contact to my MB and seconds later it appears on my phone.
Here is when I believe the problem started.
I wanted all my mail and contacts to be in my 'documents' folder so I could sync that folder, and only that folder, between multiple places and machines and also backup everything in one fell swoop.
a) I moved the mail and the application support/addressbook folders from my library to my docs folder.
b) In the terminal created hard links in the original places pointing to the new.  I was careful to make hard links not soft.
From the finder and from the terminal the links are all working fine works fine.  And as I mentioned the sync function to my phone finds the moved files and works great.  Mail work fine. I can create new accounts etc so mail preferences work fine. I also did this with my messages and dropbox and they are working fine.
If I  reveal   ' ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/MailRecents-v4.abcdmr'
It is in         '  /Users/MyUserFolder/Documents/$ AddressBook'
If I  reveal   ' ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail'
It is in         ' /Users/MyUserFolder/Library/Containers'
So everything looks good.  But obviously it isn't.  I am missing moving a file somewhere, or possibly a pref file needs edited.
Gosh, I sure hope Apple didn't hardcode a lowlevel address into the mail program somehow.  That would have been shortsighted and against unix principles that want everything to be accessible through the file system - but it wouldn't be the 1st time they changed something inside unix.
I found the discussion, Re: Why can't Mail access email addresses from Contacts? and looked at that.
I did not see anything that looked like it would help me since it seemed he could see the contacts in his address panel it just wouldn't auto search them. I thought about trying the two things Linc Davis mentioned but he cautioned against changing any of the contents of the sandbox.  The last time I was deep into the OS was before it had a sandbox so I am not familiar with it and am not sure what would or would not affect the sandbox; so I hesitate to try until I understand that.
I am running 10.8.2 build 12C60 and Mail 6.2 (1499)  on a MB Pro 15" Early'08  2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
So they is something about Mary Mail.  Anyone have any ideas for me?
Could Mail have a relative address or very low level address to the addressbook built into it?

More Info:
If I  reveal   ' ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/MailRecents-v4.abcdmr'
It is in         '  /Users/MyUserFolder/Documents/$ AddressBook'
If I  reveal   ' ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail'
It is in         ' /Users/MyUserFolder/Library/Containers'

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