Address Book - "Forced Quit" lost all data

I had a significant problem with Address Book (4.0.6) and its back-up. I am running 10.4.11 on a Power Mac (Dual 450 MHz PowerPC G4).
While in Address Book, it did not respond so I did a Force Quit. Upon reopening Address Book, all of my data (over 1000 items) was gone and only two addresses existed. In checking my account>Library>Application Support>Address Book, all that existed in the main address was 16 KB. A version of the Address Book from 2005 existed but not the current one.
In checking my back-up drive (backed up once a day), backed up by Retrospect (Destination = Replaced Corresponding Files, Selecting = Users Folders and Prefs (OS X), the only Address Book file was from 2005, probably when I first used Retrospect. In other words, the daily back-up was not capturing the most recent file.
One, what happened to the Address Book file when I did Forced Quit? Is it still on my hard drive under some other name? If so, how can I find it and can I use it?
FYI, I did run Apple’s Disk Utility and Verified the Hard drive which was OK.

Try this:
Quit Address Book.
In folder ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook drag file AddressBook.data to the desktop. Rename AddressBook.data.previous to AddressBook.data and restart AB. If your contacts are not back quit AB again and repeat the drag/rename process, this time with AddressBook.data.beforesave.
If you get your contacts back, now is probably a good time to use the AB menu item File/Back up Address Book.
AK

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