Address Book hangs on open

I am running a MacBook on 10.5.5, updated the day it came out. It may be important to note that I tried the evaluation version of Contactizer Pro, but was not impressed and removed it.
So my problem is this:
Whenever I open Address Book, it begins to open by showing the highlighted dot on the dock, but a windows never appears. Force quit displays that is is open but not responding. Occasionally, if I wait 20-30 minutes it will open and work normally. The last time it started working normally, I made a backup of all my contacts, so if any of the repair processes require I nuke the program and start over, fine!
Anyone know how to fix this? I wanted to try syncing my contacts with Gmail, but never even got started because of this mess. Thanks in advance!

It seems other people are also complaining about this problem. I have previously replied to another thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8144444#8144444
I also cannot open Address Book since installing 10.5.5 in both my computers, synced with MobileMe. I am not running any other program to manage my contacts.
It seems it is the interface that does not work, since changes do update if you click on something, quit Address Book and open the app once again.
Console reports:
<08/09/23 11:53:37 Address Book[3932] * -[NSCFArray insertObject:atIndex:]: attempt to insert nil>.
Anyone know what this means?

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