Address Book application no longer launches

I broke my laptop a few weeks ago and had the data manually retrieved and put on a hard drive. I bought a new macbook pro earlier and I was manually transferring the application files when i think i accidentally overwrote the address book application. Note my old computer was using tiger - so every time I try to launch address book it says something like this address book doesnt work with this version of Mac OS X. So I deleted Address Book from application and ran the 10.5.3 update. Address Book is back, but now has no logo (it looks like the application logo) and doesn't do anything when I click on it.
How do I get my address book back!?

An update won't replace the whole program. You either need to get it from the instal DVD or copy from a Leopard version, then run update, again.
Pacivist will allow you to pull individual programs off the install DVD.

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If you are running Tiger and your son is running Panther, I'm not sure how the Tiger Mail.app version is working with Panther. If it is working, it probably won't be for long. Your son needs the Panther version of Mail and Address Book which are not available as a download.
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http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12743
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