Address book is blank!?!?!

I went to get my address book and blam, it was completey wiped blank! Is there a way to retrieve it?
shheeez, I wonder if me fooling arounf with smart mailboxes caused me to lose my address book? Anybody have any ideas as to what I can do?
mahalo,
RB

Roger,
open the folder
~/Library / Application Support / AddressBook and find the file that has the ...before save extension. Press your Alt key and select it (not double click, just one), now while you continue to hold down the ALt key, just drag the file to the desktop. You will see a green dot with the + sign appearing on the icon, indicating that you are copying this file, creating a duplicate of the orginal.
Now do the rename thing I mentioned above and start AB, report back if it does not work.

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