Manually transfer Address Book

I backed up all of my Tiger Hard Drive folders (System, Library, Applications, & User folder) onto an external Hard Drive. Then erased the internal drive and did a clean Leopard install. Then I manually replaced the data I wanted, avoiding the data I suspected might be corrupted or incompatible.
All went smoothly, except for my Address Book. I now realize that I should've exported as one big vcard in Tiger first. But it's too late now.
Does anyone know which files I have to retrieve from the Tiger data to get the addresses into Leopard? (I tried addressbook preferences, along with library/application support/addressbook, but it didn't work.
Thanks in advance!

Got it to work! Not sure which file did it, so I'll just list all the files and folders I copied over and where I copied them to...
1.) Home folder/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
2.) Home folder/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
3.) Home folder/Library/Application Support/AddressBook **
** To get this last step to work, drag the entire "AddressBook" folder out of the Application Support folder (you can put it in the trash for now) and then put the original folder in its place. Otherwise you'll get a system warning saying "File 'AddressBook-v22.abcddb' cannot be replaced because it is in use."
And that's it. Open your Address Book application and see if your old addresses are there. Once you've confirmed the data, choose Export from the Address Book File menu and save as Address Book Archive for next time.

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