Address Book erased

I erased my address book, by mistake, and now I can not sync my iphone thru Entourage as it requires Address Book to be synced also. I have tried to re-install from my discs Tiger, however after all the updates I will have to erease everything to allow the re-install. How can I just install Address Book?

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Since the Address Book is a separate app, you should be able to +custom install+ from your System Install Tiger DVD. You do not need to boot from same (hold down the "c" key). Or use Pacifist to help you custom install.

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