Address Book's Directory Services question

I have one server running 10.6 server. It's an Open Directory master, with several accounts created in the network node. I'm thinking there has to be a way that Address Book can show contact information of everyone that's managed by Open Directory.
What I can do now, is search via the search box (in Address Book client) for people managed by Open Directory and their contact information will show up.
What I can't do now, is click on the created group that should contain everyone's contact information and it show up. So I see zero contacts in the group created by being able to connect to the Address Book server. Any ideas? Thanks.
Message was edited by: mickey13

Used to be, maybe OSX server 10.4, that an . would bring up all entries in the directory but that no longer works either in 10.5 or 10.6 server.
Anyone have an idea?
Appears that it is only searching fname lname fields

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A Rolodex ------------->

You would need a scanner with OCR (optical character regocnition) software. It scans the text and makes an educated guess as to what the letter is and types that into a doc for you. It works best when you are scanning typed text. If it is handwriting it will be pretty spotty getting the letters right. Either way this will be very labor intensive because you will still need to correct any mistakes you find, and it will only save the step of actually reading the cards yourself and typing them.
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