10.4 address book into 10.5

Is there any way to backup a 10.4 address book and then revert to it on a 10.5 machine? This is how I've always transferred my adress books to other machines. Doesn't sem to work in this case.

If I understand you right, that by doing this you want to loose what's currently in your 10.5 address book (or if it is empty so far)
* Delete everything that's in your current ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook Folder
* Would be good to also delete your ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist File
* Copy the contents of your old ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook Folder to the new machine and start up Address Book. This should update your Address Book to 10.5, just as if you would have installed 10.5 over your existing 10.4.
Hope this works for you.
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