Address Book Not Importing Zip Codes

When importing a a tab-delimited txt file into Address book everthing comes through fine. Except. Address Book automatically removes the first number in the zip code if starts with a zero. Leaving a 4 digit zip that is invalid. So what should be 07712 ends up 7712. Which this may not be a bother if you are importing a few addresses. I had over 700 to import, which I had to go through one by one and correct. As I need the for mailings, that I print out on avery labels, in addition to the other contac info. I've read about people having problems in the auto fill in Safari not bringing in the zero from the users vcard.
Has anyone experience this problem? Has / is Apple addressing it? Answer. Not if your zip code starts with a zer0. Thanks.
Imac   Mac OS X (10.4.1)  

This is a common occurance when text files have been processed by spreadsheets. Unless you make special provisions to preserve them, leading zeros are normally stripped off of the data stored in cells.
It's not the Address Book import that's the problem - it's your source file.

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