Address Book help

I accidentally overwrote the Address Book in the application folder. I saved my old address book to an external fire wire drive as a precaution, bought a 20 inch iMac Pentium and then dragged the old app into the new app folder.
Yes I'm an idiot and no I didn't realize I could import all my contacts via a .mac sync.
Anyway, now I'm being told that the current version of 10.5.1 won't recognize version 4.0.6 of the address book. I already deleted the old one out of the trash. I can't do a complete OS install as I have the latest version. I'm stuck with a version of Address Book that I can't use and I can't figure out a way to update it.
What can I do at this point? I need to hook up my iPhone at some point to the new computer (kind of the reason I bought it) but I can't figure out how to install the correct version of Address Book that I can then use to sync in my contacts

By default the Optional installer is not configured to install anything. You need to click the triangle next to Applications and place a checkmark by Address Book to have the installer install it.

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