Address Book Archive Preferences?!?

After a nasty crash of Address Book and other issues, I ultimately upgraded to 10.5 and am now up to 10.5.5 with all things going smoothly. The crash occurred when using PocktMac for BlackBerry Sync (I had not done my addresses in a while - the calendar sync was fine - and then everything was wonky after the failed sync). I did ultimately delete some Address Book prefs (and yes I do wish I could remember which ones I trashed). BUT - what was weird - and STILL is weird - even after the crash but before the switch from 10.4.11 to 10.5.5 is that virtually ALL of my Preferences are labeled in the "kind" column as being Address Book Archive. Its that way for everything from the Excel.plist to the com.apple.printer preferences. surely this can't be right. Of the 401 items listed in the Presf folder, easily 250 of them are branded as "Address Book Archive" in the Kind column. Should I be alarmed? And if I should be, how does one remedy this?
Any and all suggestions and thoughts are always welcome

Is this normal for so many of these to be grouped as address Book Archive?
Definitely not! I'd say there's a problem with your Launch Services database. You should download a copy of Onyx for Leopard (the first item on the left of the page) and run the Maintenance and Cleaning routines, which will repair the Launch Services database, among other things. Those Address Book Archive plist files should change to something else with any luck.
Mulder

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