10.6 Snow Leopard, Address Book Server, 10.5 Clients needing access

Hi,
Setup Snow Leopard Server for a local not for profit that I donate some time to. All works great for their 10.6 Clients but (despite a fair bit of research) I cant find a way to get CARDDAV access to 10.5 PPC macs.
Is there a way or app that will let this happen. ie OS X 10.5.8 PPC Client (all patched up) needing to see a shared address book on the server. It can even be read only...
Been trolling through the options but it doesnt look promising... Hoping there is a real answer out there somewhere.

Hi, thanks for the reference.. Had been there without much success.
I am going to investigate a roundabout method... Using a shared address book read/write for the 10.6 clients and then syncing that with google. It would appear that 10.5 can sync via google.
Kind of a strange way to go but its the only thing I can think of at present. A carddav client for 10.5 would be sweet...

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