Address Book gone after sync with idisk

I sync'd my address book with my idisk account. Addresses in both places. I put it on auto. Later my desk top address book was empty. I tried to sync again and then the idisk account was empty too.

I experienced the same thing a few days ago, although I didn't connect it with iSync. That could be what caused the problem though.
If I look in my Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook.data I can see my addresses, and adding a new address to the blank address book makes it appear in that file.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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