Address book restore in Lion 10.7.2

For some reason iCloud just accidentally deleted all my address book items. I was then trying to restore them from a time machine backup. Before in Snow Leopard you were able to restore single addresses by opening time machine when the address book was running (in time machine right-clicking on a single address and then hitting restore). When I do that now in Lion the only two options I can see when I right click on a time machine address are "export vcard" and "spotlight: name" ... nothing that will really restore my addresses.
Has anyone any idea how to restore addresses from a time machine backup in Lion?

to b99
Let me apologize to you on giving some inaccurate information. I'm really suprised nobody came in to correct me on this. For some reason or other I was under the impression you could import contacts from the database file (AddressBook-v22.abcddb), but that's not correct.
In your Home Library, Application support folder, AddressBook folder:
For local contacts on the computer, the AddressBook-v22.abcddb file is the database file for your contacts. Contacts are stored in the Metadata folder.
If you are using iCloud, your info for contacts is stored in the Sources folder. There will be a file there that is used for iCloud. You will need to determine which is correct. The file name will change each time you sign in and out of iCloud. In that folder, you will find another AddressBook-v22.abcddb database file used by iCloud and another Metadata folder where the iCloud contacts are stored.
If you merge contacts and not storing any on the computer (On My Mac), the contacts will be deleted from the Metadata folder in the main AddressBook folder. They will only be under the iCloud folder in Sources.
To restore from TM, open AB and enter TM. Go back to the date you want to restore from, select all contacts to restore, and hit restore. It should Import the contacts to AB.

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