Address Book Addresses Wiped Out by Entourage!

After selecting preferences in Entourage to "replace Sync Services items with Entourage items" in order to sync it with Address Book, all previous addresses in the latter were wiped out and Address Book is blank! Solutions welcome.

I can't remember exactly what happened when I first turned it on, so I am just guessing based on how other syncing works. The first time, it should ask you what you want to do:
1) Replace Data A with Data B
2) Replace Data B with Data A
3) Merge Data A and Data B
This should only happen once. You chose to replace you address book data with the data from Entourage. Since you have the data in both places now the same, it doesn't really matter which you choose as they should all result in the same thing.
Now, with syncing turned on and the initial data established, changes to the address book should update in Entourage and vice versa.
However, if it still wipes it clean after the initial setup, I'm not sure what the problem is. Mine is working fine.
Ok, I turned syncing off, then back on again and I got the options I described above. I chose merge and got 8 conflicts which I resolved.

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