Address book high cpu, not syncing

Hi,
Some days ago I activated iCloud for address book on Lion. Seemed to work well. recently I noticed that address book always shows the spinning circle besides the iCloud account, it does not sync any new contacts I enter, and it takes 100% cpu / 1GB RAM without any visible progress until I quit address book! (10 minutes should be more than sufficient.)
Disabling the icloud account solves the cpu problem after restarting address book.
After exporting all my contacts, I tried removing the iCloud account from address book, then re-adding it - same problem.
Then I tried removing the account again,
renamed the address book folder in Library, to start from scratch.
(1) Weird: When I started address book, after a short delay all my contacts appeared, although I did not re-import them! This is spooky!!!
Ok, the I went to system settings, iCloud, and enabled contacts here (to try another apporoach).
(2) Still, same problem (now it was a process called sth. like adressbooksync that took 100% cpu.
After some healthy messages like
  14.12.11 08:13:42,940 Address Book: [Migration] background thread did notify main thread that migration is complete
console has lots of suspicious messages, like:
  14.12.11 09:11:44,463 AddressBookSourceSync: ABImageLoading: imageData is type (null) containing: (null)
and
  14.12.11 09:13:54,648 AddressBookSourceSync: Error, could not create MachMessagePort for com.apple.AddressBook.abd
Repairing permissions on the system disk did not help.
Any ideas what I could do?
And which magic happened at (1) ?
Regards,
Philipp

Strange, now it seems to work! :-)

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