Address Book - Name Completion Search Order missing books

We have Groupwise 8.0.2 running on Netware 6.5 SP8
Problem: in the Address Book, the Name Completion Search Order shows different Available Books depending on the computer, but no computer has all the available books.
Computer 1: (the user's pc): Windows 7. The Available Books has only the Groupwise Address Book and the Frequent Contacts. It does not show the user's personal address book as being available, it is not even listed in the box.
Computer 2: Windows 7. The available books box is empty.
Computer 3: (my pc) Windows XP. Logging into Groupwise with the user's account, the available books box is empty (same as Computer 2), but when I go into my account, all 3 books are showing (Groupwise, Personal, and Frequent Contacts)

Hi
like Laura said, there are different misc. support options for gwcheck:
PABCHANGEFIX
PABDELDUPREC
PABFIX
PABONLY
Do they correct anything if you run them
1. against the caching mailbox (if used)
2. against the online box?
IMHO there should be a "how to" when the users personal address book is missing/deleted and not just closed...
Just google a bit ;)
Cheers,
Pascal

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