Address Book shared contacts syncing issues

Hi all,
So I've been trying to set up a system with a co-worker where I share his address book, and we both change as needed (on a daily, hourly basis). I subscribed to his address book, he has sharing on, and added me. It shows his address book, but it doesn't load his contacts.
There are about 6,000 contacts in his, and it says there are 1,200 but thats it and it won't go further. I tried restarting all of the sharing contacts process but now its just the pinwheel till the end of time.
Am I just impatient? BTW I've been waiting about 6 hours. Please help! Also if you know any Contact Management database for mac that syncs over mult. users, PLEASE let me know. We're willing to pay. Thank you!!
- Mark

My Address Book is also not syncing with Google. I ticked Synchronize with Google, entered my username and password, closed the Preferences window and nothing happened. I reopened Address Book to see if it would start syncing, but nothing happened again. After that I tried entering a new contact into Address Book to see if it would sync to Google Contacts. It didn't. On the other hand, my iPhone has no problem syncing with Google Contacts.
What gives? Why put an option if it doesn't work? Is there a solution, a trick?

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