Address Book corrupt?

I received my new MacBook Pro 2 weeks ago and migrated from my old Macbook pro. I discovered today that my address book is empty. This seems a disaster, but I noticed when I start the program, the window opens briefly with all of my groups there and, apparently, all of the addresses (doesn't give me time to check). After about a second, the groups and contacts all disappear, and I am left with a blank contact list.
I tried to reload my addressbook.data file, just in case it got corrupted, but that did not help. I also exported the addresses from my old Macbook, copied them to the HD of the new Macbook, and then tried to import the list, but that did not work either.
Finally, I checked to see if I could re-install "Address Book.app" from the installer disc, but that is apparently not possible. Can someone help me out?

jonathan% ls -aleO Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/
total 904
drwx------+ 9 jonathan jonathan - 306 Apr 17 12:01 .
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------@ 52 jonathan jonathan - 1768 Apr 16 11:20 ..
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rwx------@ 1 jonathan jonathan hidden 6148 Apr 17 08:21 .DS_Store
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rwx------+ 1 jonathan jonathan - 10 Apr 17 12:01 .database.lockN
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rwx------+ 1 jonathan jonathan - 10 Sep 29 2007 .skIndex.ABPerson.lockN
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rw-r--r-- 1 jonathan jonathan - 442368 Apr 17 07:14 AddressBook-v22.abcddb
-rw-r--r-- 1 jonathan jonathan - 332 Apr 17 07:10 Configuration.plist
drwx------ 3 jonathan jonathan - 102 Apr 17 07:08 Images
drwx------ 253 jonathan jonathan - 8602 Apr 17 08:12 Metadata

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I agree that once you have two people called 'Dave' it then becomes necessary to have a surname and in-fact I've started adding all new people with surnames. I am however unlikely to ever have more than one entry for 'Mum' or 'Dad'.
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jonathan% ls -aleO Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/
total 904
drwx------+ 9 jonathan jonathan - 306 Apr 17 12:01 .
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------@ 52 jonathan jonathan - 1768 Apr 16 11:20 ..
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rwx------@ 1 jonathan jonathan hidden 6148 Apr 17 08:21 .DS_Store
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rwx------+ 1 jonathan jonathan - 10 Apr 17 12:01 .database.lockN
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rwx------+ 1 jonathan jonathan - 10 Sep 29 2007 .skIndex.ABPerson.lockN
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rw-r--r-- 1 jonathan jonathan - 442368 Apr 17 07:14 AddressBook-v22.abcddb
-rw-r--r-- 1 jonathan jonathan - 332 Apr 17 07:10 Configuration.plist
drwx------ 3 jonathan jonathan - 102 Apr 17 07:08 Images
drwx------ 253 jonathan jonathan - 8602 Apr 17 08:12 Metadata

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