Address book contacts on MacBook missing after using Yahoo Sync

I think Yahoo sync is the culprit but I can't be sure. After syncing my yahoo contacts using iSync on my mac book I lost all contact information in my Address book. This is a link to how I did it http://tinyurl.com/2fegmry
I still have all my contacts on my iPhone, including my yahoo imported information. When I checked days later I had the information on my phone but not on my computer.
Then I sync'd my phone to my computer, none of my contacts from my phone AB transferred to my computer AB. There were still no contacts in my computer AB.
I can't add a contact to my computer AB at all, not sync'd and not manually. I have since tried dragging the file AddressBook-v22.abcddb to my desk top and double clicking it before and after restarting my machine. No luck. I have done the same with the file AddressBook.data.previous. I also reset sync history. I did both of these after reading of similar problems in the forums. I have also deleted the suspected culpret Yahoo Sync file from my computer, something which I have since learned might have been better kept on until I figured out the problem so, if all else, I could share with you the file name (sorry).
Any help on where to go from here would be much appreciated.

Anyone with an answer out there??? Same thing happened to me, nothing in my address book but Yahoo is loaded and has triplicated everything.

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B) How do you change which ‘account’ your contacts are setup under if they are under the wrong account?
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