10.4.11 UPDATE: lost all pictures in Adress book

Hi, I updated to OS 10.4.11 two days ago. Now I opened my Address Book th first time and all the pictures i added to my contacts are lost! I searched around and found them at /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Images. So they are nor really lost but I just can't see them. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Have you made any back-ups your "years worth of events" since you started entering them?
Did you back-up your slow running system before applying the 10.4.11 Update?

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