10.4 address import into 10.5?

My hard drive went down. I Couldn't see loading 10.4 back on so i bought and installed 10.5. I have a pretty recent back up (drag and drop to an external drive) that includes my whole ~/Library directory. I would like to get Address Book pointed to my back up of my old Address Book so it can slurp down all the contacts and i can be back in business, but hitting import and trying all the options, it just doesn't seem to want to accept any file in my old /Library/Application Support/Address Book folder.
I was able to import all my mail painlessly, what gives? Is Address Book totally different in 10.5? How could they not include an option to import a 10.4 address book? There has to be a way right?
Any help would be appreciated
cheers,
kp8

Here's an easier solution:
Folders You Can Move to Your new Mac
From the Home folder copy the contents of Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
For FireFox:
/Home/Library/Applications Support/FireFox
/Home/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
Credit goes to another forum user for this information.

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