Address Book locks up -- not responding

OK, at wit's end here. Address Book locks up with spinning beachball every time it opens and I need to force quit it. Here's what I've tried after search through these forums:
Deleted plist file
Deleted all files in Application Support (after backing them up)
Repaired permissions on disk
Verified disk
Reinstalled Address Book
Resolved all duplicate fonts
At one point in the process, I opened Address Book executable in the app's package and the Terminal gave message that said "Can't ABACQUIREFILELOCK Framework/AddressBook/ABAddressBook.m:2746"
Now it doesn't say that, but "/Applications/Address\ Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address\ Book; exit"
No crash logs in Console.
Happens in every user account.
Any ideas?
Thanks
20" iMac G5 (PowerMac8,1) Mac OS X (10.4.8)
20" iMac G5 (PowerMac8,1) Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I had to do forced powerdown. That tell us anything?
Yes, your Disk is corrupted... the first thing Safe Boot does is try to fix the Disk.
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
Unfortunately, Disk Utility can't fix all that much, and the only other Apple Options are erasing the HD, or installing OSX to a second drive, then using Migration Assistant to move stuff over to the new HD.
You must repair the HD, if Disk Utility or fsck should fail to repair it, your best bet is DiskWarrior from Alsoft, you'll need the CD to boot from if you don't have another boot drive...
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/

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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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