Address Book fails to search

OK, I have reviewed other threads on Address Book problems and the solutions there have not helped. Here is the situation, and I can reproduce the results.
I am running OS X 10.7.2 on a MacBook and all was well. My address book has 935 contacts in it and yesterday it worked fine when I needed it. It is synced with iCloud. There have been no known changes in the environment in any recent weeks or days. Yesterday I installed FileMaker Pro - this has been the only change on this Mac in the past week or more.
Now when I try to use the search bar in the address book, the search returns nothing and the list view "freezes" on to one contact. The contact is highlighted but I am unable to select any other contact. I can use the up and down arrow to scroll the list, but only the one contact appears on the right pane.
If I delete the temp file in the Library files, then restart, some functionality might be restores - that is, i can scroll through the list, see different cards, etc. However, as soon as I use the search function, the "freeze" returns. Help!

The solutions above did NOT work for me, but I have a solution that did. The search field did not respond to typed letters that should narrow the contact list (i.e., typing "west" should narrow the entries to ones having "west" in them). Disabling iCloud syncing actually caused System Prefs to hang. Archiving, deleting all contacts, quitting AB, and then deleting the AddressBook-v22.abcddb files, did NOT solve the problem Interestingly, after doing the foregoing steps, I relaunched AB and typed a test contact, and confirmed that the search function worked. But after reimporting the archive, the same old issue recurred.
These steps fixed it: In my case this was not an iCloud problem, and I did not disable synching. Instead of archiving the AB, (1) I exported all the contacts (3,600) as a vCard, (2) deleted all the contacts, (3) quit AB, (4) deleted all three AddressBook-v22.abcddb files (there are several under subfolders in the Application Support>Address Book files), (5) logged out and back in again, and (6) imported the vCard with all my entries.
I think the importing of the vCards (as opposed to bringing back in the Archive, triggered re-indexing of the database. It is possible, however, that the additional step of loggin out and back in made a difference, as the AB database is contained in the user's home folder, and quitting and logging back on can clean up files in the user's folder. Because I did not disable iCloud syching, deleting all the contacts did delete them from the cloud and my devices. But they returned with proper synching after I imported the vCard back in.
Although the individual vCards do seem to have the info on which groups they belong to, this process did depopulate all my groups. So, if you have groups, and you want to keep them, you might try all the above steps but with an archive, rather than a vCard.
Derek

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