Address book not supported on this architecture

Hi, can anyone point me in the right direction? My address book no longer opens and displays "You cannot open the application "Address Book" because it is not supported on this architecture." the icon itself has changed to sheets of paper with a ruler, pencil with a big circle and diagonal line.

I'm having the same problem. It happened after i upgraded to 10.5.8. It stopped working after the upgrade. I recovered the old address book from my time capsule from this morning, and that's when i got the "not supported on this architecture" message.
thanks
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