Address Book lock up due to a smart group

I accidently created a smart group in Address Book which seems to trigger an infinite loop or lock condition. As a result, it's impossible for me to perform any action in the address book (including modifying or deleting the problematic smart group), since the whole application locks up as soon as I start it.
Smart group (match all):
- Card is member of any group
- Card is not member of group X
- Card is not member of group Y
Is there any way to delete a smart group from the command line? Also, how can I report this bug?
Here's a screenshot of the smart group properties: http://www.joaopinheiro.org/tmp/addressbook.png
Thanks!

I have found two solutions to this problem, so I'm linking them here in case someone else runs into the same problem:
- http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1389583
- http://www.obdev.at/articles/2008-09-16/mac-os-x-10.5.5-causing-address-book-iss ues.html

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Yes, your Disk is corrupted... the first thing Safe Boot does is try to fix the Disk.
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Derrald wrote:
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